 | | From: | Ranjan Grover | | Subject: | nanosurf afms | | Date: | Thu, 20 Jan 2005 18:27:46 -0700 |
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 | Hi
Is anyone here using Nanosurf atomic force microscope(s)? If you are, I
was wondering what is the best lateral resolution you have obtained. I
would also appreciate it if you could tell me what kind of vibration
isolation you used for the high resolution measurements.
Ranjan
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| | From: | usenet_pete at hotmail.com | | Subject: | Re: nanosurf afms | | Date: | 21 Jan 2005 03:24:44 -0800 |
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| Hi Ranjan,
Is that the Easyscan? i haven't used it myself, but i spoke to a
colleague about it a while back, and he was able to get "atomic"
resolution with it. And i know he commonly demonstrated it on a
table(though i wouldn't reccomend that)...so in theory you should be
able to get very high resolution.
what are you trying to do, and what is your current vibration
isolation?
Pete.
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| | From: | Ranjan Grover | | Subject: | Re: nanosurf afms | | Date: | Fri, 21 Jan 2005 07:34:38 -0700 |
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| > what are you trying to do, and what is your current vibration
> isolation?
Yes it the is the high resolution Easyscan AFM. Is your colleague using
the AFM or STM? The AFM is rated for 1 nm resolution and it is routine to
get 25 nm resolution on just a gel pad on an air-table which is what I
have as my vibration isolation right now. I can't afford to suspend it on
a tripod due to the nature of my experiment and I was wondering if there
is any other route to getting < 5 nm resolution. I'm trying to image 10 nm
grains on a polycrystalline material.
Ranjan
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