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Amplitude-modulation atomic force microscopy (AM-AFM) measures nanoscale surface structures by detecting changes in the cantilever oscillation amplitude, contributing to materials research. AM-AFM can non-destructively observe fragile…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-06-18 Kenichi Umeda , Karen Kamoshita , Noriyuki Kodera

Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM) is a suitable tool to perform tribological characterization of materials down to the nanometer scale. An important aspect in nanofriction measurements of corrugated samples is the local tilt of the surface,…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-06-22 A. Podesta' , G. Fantoni , P. Milani

Small-amplitude dynamic atomic force microscopy (dynamic-AFM) in a simple nonpolar liquid was studied through molecular dynamics simulations. We find that within linear dynamics regime, the contact stiffness and damping of the confined film…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-05-04 Rong-Guang Xu , Yongsheng Leng

We suggest simple model of image formation in atomic force microscope (AFM) taking into account contact deformations of probe and sample during scanning. The model explains the possibility of AFM visualization of regular atomic or molecular…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-07-25 M. O. Gallyamov , I. V. Yaminsky

This article reviews the progress of atomic force microscopy (AFM) in ultra-high vacuum, starting with its invention and covering most of the recent developments. Today, dynamic force microscopy allows to image surfaces of conductors…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-10 Franz J. Giessibl

Numerous cell types relate to their immediate environment by exerting a three-dimensional pressure field on their environment, with components both longitudinal and transverse to the cell membrane. This pressure field can in principle be…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-03-09 Quentin Bédel , Loïc Dupré , Nicolas Destainville

The ability to probe a materials electromechanical functionality on the nanoscale is critical to applications from energy storage and computing to biology and medicine. Voltage modulated atomic force microscopy (VM-AFM) has become a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-04-16 Liam Collins , Yongtao Liu , Olga Ovchinnikova , Roger Proksch

We propose a new method to investigate interactions involved in atomic force microscopy (AFM). It is a dynamical method relying on the growth of oscillations via parametric resonance. With this method the second and third derivatives of the…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 Franz-Josef Elmer

The interaction of water with surfaces is crucially important in a wide range of natural and technological settings. In particular, at low temperatures, unveiling the atomistic structure of adsorbed water clusters would provide valuable…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-02-23 F. Priante , N. Oinonen , Y. Tian , D. Guan , C. Xu , S. Cai , P. Liljeroth , Y. Jiang , A. S. Foster

Atomic force microscopy (AFM) is a key tool for characterising nanoscale structures, with functionalised tips now offering detailed images of the atomic structure. In parallel, AFM simulations using the particle probe model provide a…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-09-03 Jie Huang , Niko Oinonen , Fabio Priante , Filippo Federici Canova , Lauri Kurki , Chen Xu , Adam S. Foster

Atomic force microscopy (AFM) has been constantly supporting nanosciences and nanotechnologies for over 30 years, being present in many fields from condensed matter physics to biology. It enables measuring very weak forces at the nanoscale,…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-09-07 L Schwab , P Allain , N Mauran , X Dollat , L Mazenq , D Lagrange , M Gély , S Hentz , G Jourdan , I Favero , B Legrand

Measurements with an atomic force microscope (AFM) offer a direct way to probe elastic properties of lipid bilayer membranes locally: provided the underlying stress-strain relation is known, material parameters such as surface tension or…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Davood Norouzi , Martin Michael Mueller , Markus Deserno

We report a systematic study to determine local elastic properties of surfaces combining atomic force microscope (AFM) with acoustic waves which is known as atomic force acoustic microscopy - AFAM. We describe the methodology of AFAM in…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Banerjee , N. Gayathri , S. R. Shannigrahi , S. Dash , A. K. Tyagi , B. Raj

Intercalation of two dimensional materials, particularly transition metal dichalcogenides, is a noninvasive way to modify electronic, optical and structural properties of these materials. However, research of these atomic-scale phenomena…

Atomic force microscopy (AFM) with molecule-functionalized tips has emerged as the primary experimental technique for probing the atomic structure of organic molecules on surfaces. Most experiments have been limited to nearly planar…

Platinum-water interfaces underpin many electrochemical energy conversion processes. However, despite decades of research, the real-space liquid structure of these interfaces remains elusive. Using three-dimensional atomic force microscopy…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-09-09 Yitong Li , Qian Ai , Lalith Krishna Samanth Bonagiri , Yingjie Zhang

The atomic force microscope (AFM) is a versatile, high-resolution tool used to characterize the topography and material properties of a large variety of specimens at nano-scale. The interaction of the micro-cantilever tip with the specimen…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-09-05 David Busch , Qingze Zou , Baskar Ganapathysubramanian

Ultrasound Atomic Force Microscopy (US-AFM) has been used for subsurface imaging of nanostructures. The contact stiffness variations have been suggested as the origin of the image contrast. Therefore, to analyze the image contrast, the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-06-07 Daniele Piras , Hamed Sadeghian

Tapping mode atomic force microscopy is a standard technique for inspection and analysis at the nanometer scale. The understanding of the non-linear dynamics of the system due to the tip sample interaction is an important prerequisite for a…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2007-05-23 Robert W. Stark

Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM) conventional static force curves and Force Feedback Microscopy (FFM) force curves acquired with the same cantilever at the solid/air and solid/liquid interfaces are here compared. The capability of the FFM to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-06-13 Luca Costa , Mario S. Rodrigues , Simon Carpentier , Pieter Jan van Zwol , Joel Chevrier , Fabio Comin