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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…

Atomic force microscopy (AFM or SPM) imaging is one of the best matches with machine learning (ML) analysis among microscopy techniques. The digital format of AFM images allows for direct utilization in ML algorithms without the need for…

Biological Physics · Physics 2025-01-07 Igor Sokolov

Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM) enables high-resolution surface imaging at the nanoscale, yet the output is often degraded by artifacts introduced by environmental noise, scanning imperfections, and tip-sample interactions. To address this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Juntao Zhang , Angona Biswas , Jaydeep Rade , Charchit Shukla , Juan Ren , Anwesha Sarkar , Adarsh Krishnamurthy , Aditya Balu

While offering unprecedented resolution of atomic and electronic structure, Scanning Probe Microscopy techniques have found greater challenges in providing reliable electrostatic characterization at the same scale. In this work, we…

Atomic force microscopy (AFM) is a mechanical profiling technique that allows to image surfaces with atomic resolution. Recent progress in reducing the noise of this technique has led to a resolution level where previously undetectable…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-24 F. J. Giessibl , H. Bielefeldt , S. Hembacher , J. Mannhart

Atomic force microscopy (AFM) enables high-resolution imaging and quantitative force measurement, which is critical for understanding nanoscale mechanical, chemical, and biological interactions. In dynamic AFM modes, however, interaction…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-06-10 Simon Laflamme , Bugrahan Guner , Omur E. Dagdeviren

Scanning tunnelling microscopy (STM) with a functionalized tip apex reveals the geometric and electronic structure of a sample within the same experiment. However, the complex nature of the signal makes images difficult to interpret and has…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-12-18 Lauri Kurki , Niko Oinonen , Adam S. Foster

Relevant to broad applied fields and natural processes, interfacial ionic hydrates has been widely studied by ultrahigh-resolution atomic force microscopy (AFM). However, the complex relationship between AFM signal and the investigated…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-04-25 Binze Tang , Yizhi Song , Mian Qin , Ye Tian , Duanyun Cao , Zhen Wei Wu , Ying Jiang , Limei Xu

With the invention of scanning probe techniques, direct imaging of single atoms and molecules became possible. Today, scanning tunnelling microscopy (STM) routinely provides angstrom-scale image resolution. At the same time, however, STM…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-01-30 C. Weiss , C. Wagner , C. Kleimann , F. S. Tautz , R. Temirov

Atomistic foundation models (AFMs) have great promise as accurate interatomic potentials, and have enabled data-efficient molecular dynamics simulations with near quantum mechanical accuracy. However, AFMs remain markedly slower at…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-09-29 Lingyu Kong , Jaeheon Shim , Guoxiang Hu , Victor Fung

Atomic force microscopy (AFM) is one of the most promising methods for investigating the structure of materials at the micro and nanoscale levels, as well as their local physical-mechanical properties. The experimental data obtained with…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-05-07 Oleg K. Garishin , Roman I. Izyumov , Alexander L. Svistkov

Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM) operating in the frequency modulation mode with a metal tip functionalized with a CO molecule images the internal structure of molecules with an unprecedented resolution. The interpretation of these images is…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-12-29 Jaime Carracedo-Cosme , Rubén Pérez

This paper develops a resolution enhancement method for post-processing the images from Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM). This method is based on deep learning neural networks in the AFM topography measurements. In this study, a very deep…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2018-09-12 Y. Liu , Q. M. Sun , Dr. W. H. Lu , Dr. H. L. Wang , Y. Sun , Z. T. Wang , X. Lu , Prof. K. Y. Zeng

Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM) is a widely employed tool for micro-/nanoscale topographic imaging. However, conventional AFM scanning struggles to reconstruct complex 3D micro-/nanostructures precisely due to limitations such as incomplete…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Shuo Chen , Mao Peng , Yijin Li , Bing-Feng Ju , Hujun Bao , Yuan-Liu Chen , Guofeng Zhang

Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM) allows to reconstruct the topography of surface with a resolution in the nanometer range. The exceptional resolution attainable with the AFM makes this instrument a key tool in nanoscience and technology. The…

Atomic force microscopy (AFM) is widely used to measure surface topography of solid, soft, and living matter at the nanoscale. Moreover, by mapping forces as a function of distance to the surface, AFM can provide a wealth of information…

Scanning probe experiments such as scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) and atomic force microscopy (AFM) on strongly correlated electronic systems often reveal complex pattern formation on multiple length scales. By studying the universal…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-04-03 L. Burzawa , Shuo Liu , E. W. Carlson

Atomic-resolution imaging with scanning transmission electron microscopy is a powerful tool for characterizing the nanoscale structure of materials, in particular features such as defects, local strains, and symmetry-breaking distortions.…

Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning have promised to revolutionize the way we live and work, and one of particularly promising areas for AI is image analysis. Nevertheless, many current AI applications focus on post-processing…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-07-31 Boyuan Huang , Zhenghao Li , Jiangyu Li

We propose a novel concept of asymmetric feature maps (AFM), which allows to evaluate multiple kernels between a query and database entries without increasing the memory requirements. To demonstrate the advantages of the AFM method, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-14 Giorgos Tolias , Ondřej Chum
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