DOI: 10.1063/1.1147409. Vibrations of free and surface-coupled atomic force microscope cantilevers: Theory and experiment

Vibrations of free and surface-coupled atomic force microscope cantilevers: Theory and experiment

10.1063/1.1147409

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Abstract

With an optical interferometer, the free vibration spectra and the local vibration amplitude of four rectangular atomic force microscope cantilevers made of silicon have been examined experimentally in a spectral range of 100 kHz to 10 MHz. A good agreement with the flexural wave theory of elastic beams was found. Coupling to torsional vibrations was also observed. When the sensor tip of the cantilever is in contact with a sample surface the resonances are shifted in frequency and the vibration amplitudes along the cantilever change. A method is presented to calculate this frequency shift using a linear approximation for the tip–sample interaction forces, and the results are compared with the frequency shift calculated from the point-mass model. The measured resonance frequencies of a surface-coupled cantilever do not correspond as well to the theoretical ones as in the free case even if the elastic-beam model is used. The reason for the disagreement is found to be the geometry of the commercial cantilevers and the nonlinearity of the tip-sample interaction force.

Bibliography

Rabe, U., Janser, K., & Arnold, W. (1996). Vibrations of free and surface-coupled atomic force microscope cantilevers: Theory and experiment. Review of Scientific Instruments, 67(9), 3281â3293.

Authors 3

U. Rabe (first)
K. Janser (additional)
W. Arnold (additional)

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Type	When
Created	23 years ago (July 26, 2002, 8:03 a.m.)
Deposited	2 years, 1 month ago (July 7, 2023, 9:45 p.m.)
Indexed	1 week, 4 days ago (Aug. 12, 2025, 5:53 p.m.)
Issued	28 years, 11 months ago (Sept. 1, 1996)
Published	28 years, 11 months ago (Sept. 1, 1996)
Published Print	28 years, 11 months ago (Sept. 1, 1996)

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BibTeX

@article{Rabe_1996, title={Vibrations of free and surface-coupled atomic force microscope cantilevers: Theory and experiment}, volume={67}, ISSN={1089-7623}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1147409}, DOI={10.1063/1.1147409}, number={9}, journal={Review of Scientific Instruments}, publisher={AIP Publishing}, author={Rabe, U. and Janser, K. and Arnold, W.}, year={1996}, month=sep, pages={3281–3293} }

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