Enhancing the multiple harmonics by step-like cantilever

In atomic force microscopy (AFM), the higher modes are highly sensitive to the tip-sample interactions which generate many harmonics. When a higher harmonic is close to the natural frequency of a mode, the harmonic signal is enhanced by a resonance. The step-like cantilever is proposed as an effecti...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Feifei Gao, Yin Zhang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: AIP Publishing LLC 2018-04-01
Series:AIP Advances
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.5023623