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JOURNAL OF NANOMATERIALS
Volume 2009, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
HINDAWI LTD
DOI: 10.1155/2009/762016
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- Junta de Comunidades de Castilla-La Mancha (JCCM) [PCI-08-092]
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Heterodyne Force Microscopy opens up a way to monitor nanoscale events with high temporal sensitivity from the quasistatic cantilever mechanical-diode response taking advantage of the beat effect. Here, a novel heterodyne ultrasonic force method is proposed, in which the cantilever is driven in amplitude-modulation mode, at its fundamental flexural eigenmode. Ultrasonic vibration in the megahertz range is additionally input at the tip-sample contact from the cantilever base and from the back of the sample. The ultrasonic frequencies are chosen in such a way that their difference is coincident with the second cantilever eigenmode. In the presence of ultrasound, cantilever vibration at the difference frequency is detected. Similarly as in heterodyne force microscopy, it is expected that the phase response yields information with increased sensitivity due to the beat effect. Copyright (c) 2009 M. Teresa Cuberes.
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