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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Kim, Hyeon-Su
• Peric, Nemanja
• Minj, Albert
• Wouters, Lennaert
• Serron, Jill
• Mancini, Chiara
• Koylan, Serkan
• Sergeant, Stefanie
• Hantschel, Thomas

Titel

Probe chip nanofabrication enabled reverse tip sample scanning probe microscopy concept and measurements

Ist Teil von

• Nanotechnology, 2024-06, Vol.35 (26), p.265703

Ort / Verlag

England: IOP Publishing

Erscheinungsjahr

2024

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• We introduce a new scanning probe microscopy (SPM) concept called reverse tip sample scanning probe microscopy (RTS SPM), where the tip and sample positions are reversed as compared to traditional SPM. The main benefit of RTS SPM over the standard SPM configuration is that it allows for simple and fast tip changes. This overcomes two major limitations of SPM which are slow data acquisition and a strong dependency of the data on the tip condition. A probe chip with thousands of sharp integrated tips is the basis of our concept. We have developed a nanofabrication protocol for Si based probe chips and their functionalization with metal and diamond coatings, evaluated our probe chips for various RTS SPM applications (multi-tip imaging, SPM tomography, and correlative SPM), and showed the high potential of the RTS SPM concept.