System atomic force microscopy based on a digital optical reading unit and a scanner-buzzer

Abstract:

An astigmatic detection system (ADS) based on a compact disk/digital-versatile-disk (CD/DVD) astigmatic optical pickup unit (OPU) is presented. It can achieve a resolution better than 0.3 nm in detection of the vertical displacement and is able to detect the two-dimensional angular tilt of the object surface. Furthermore, a novel scanner design actuated by piezoelectric disk buzzers is presented. The scanner is composed of a quad-rod actuation structure and several piezoelectric disks. It can be driven directly with low-voltage and low-current sources, such as analogue outputs of a data acquisition (DAQ) card and enables a sufficient scanning range of up to 15 pm. In addition, an economic, high-performance streamlined atomic force microscope (AFM) was constructed, using the buzzer-scanner to move the sample relative to the probe, and using a CD/DVD OPU to detect the mechanical resonance of a …

Año de publicación:

2015

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