TIP-SAMPLE INTERACTIONS - EXTRACTION OF SINGLE MOLECULAR PAIR POTENTIALS FROM FORCE CURVES

Authors
UNGER MA OCONNOR SD BALDESCHWIELER JD
Citation
Ma. Unger et al., TIP-SAMPLE INTERACTIONS - EXTRACTION OF SINGLE MOLECULAR PAIR POTENTIALS FROM FORCE CURVES, Journal of vacuum science & technology. B, Microelectronics and nanometer structures processing, measurement and phenomena, 14(2), 1996, pp. 1302-1307
Citations number
15
Categorie Soggetti
Physics, Applied
Journal title
Journal of vacuum science & technology. B, Microelectronics and nanometer structures processing, measurement and phenomena → ACNP
ISSN journal
10711023
Volume
14
Issue
2
Year of publication
1996
Pages
1302 - 1307
Database
ISI
SICI code
1071-1023(1996)14:2<1302:TI-EOS>2.0.ZU;2-I
Abstract
This article describes a method for extracting the true tip-sample pot ential from an experimental force curve in atomic force microscopy. Th is potential is not the negative integral of the force curve, Rather, the potential is a more complicated function of the force curve and ca ntilever spring constant, Lf information about the shape of the tip is known, a decorrelation may be performed to extract molecular pair pot entials from the total tip-sample potential. Applications and limitati ons of this method are discussed. (C) 1996 American Vacuum Society.