Relationship between the non linear dynamic behaviour of an oscillating tip-microlever system and the contrast at the atomic scale
Atomic and Molecular Clusters
2016-08-16 v1
Abstract
In this paper, the dynamic behaviour of an oscillating tip-microlever system at the proximity of a surface is discussed. The attractive tip-surface interaction is simply described with a Van der Waals dispersive term and a sphere-plane geometry. We show that the non linear behaviour of the oscillator is able to explain the observed shifts of the resonance frequency as a function of the tip-surface distance without the need of introducing a particular short range force.
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@article{arxiv.physics/0510121,
title = {Relationship between the non linear dynamic behaviour of an oscillating tip-microlever system and the contrast at the atomic scale},
author = {Jean-Pierre Aimé and Gérard Couturier and Rodolphe Boisgard and Laurent Nony},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:physics/0510121},
year = {2016}
}