Amplitude quantification in contact-resonance-based voltage-modulated force spectroscopy

Autor: André Schirmeisen, Stephan Bradler, Bernhard Roling
Rok vydání: 2017
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Zdroj: Journal of Applied Physics. 122:065106
ISSN: 1089-7550
0021-8979
Popis: Voltage-modulated force spectroscopy techniques, such as electrochemical strain microscopy and piezoresponse force microscopy, are powerful tools for characterizing electromechanical properties on the nanoscale. In order to correctly interpret the results, it is important to quantify the sample motion and to distinguish it from the electrostatic excitation of the cantilever resonance. Here, we use a detailed model to describe the cantilever dynamics in contact resonance measurements, and we compare the results with experimental values. We show how to estimate model parameters from experimental values and explain how they influence the sensitivity of the cantilever with respect to the excitation. We explain the origin of different crosstalk effects and how to identify them. We further show that different contributions to the measured signal can be distinguished by analyzing the correlation between the resonance frequency and the measured amplitude. We demonstrate this technique on two representative test s...
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