Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Jobin, Marc
• Foschia, Raphael
• Grange, Sébastien
• Baur, Charles
• Gremaud, Gérard
• Lee, Kyumin
• Forró, Laszlo
• Kulik, Andrzej

Titel

Versatile force-feedback manipulator for nanotechnology applications

Ist Teil von

• Review of scientific instruments, 2005-05, Vol.76 (5), p.053701-053701-6

Ort / Verlag

American Institute of Physics

Erscheinungsjahr

2005

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• A nanoscale manipulation system has been designed and built through the integration of a force-feedback haptic device and a commercial atomic force microscope. The force-feedback interaction provides a very intuitive, efficient and reliable way for quick manipulation of nanoscale objects. Unlike other nanomanipulators, ours allows the user to feel the actual tip-sample interaction during the manipulation process. Various modes of manipulation have been implemented and evaluated. As a proof of concept, we show a contact-mode nanomanipulation of a carbon nanotube and a noncontact manipulation of silicon beads. In addition to nanomanipulation itself, all relevant signals can be recorded during the manipulation process which allows quantitative interpretation of nanomechanics experiments.