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Non-Contact Tuning Fork Position Sensing for Hollow-Pyramid Near-Field Cantilevered Probes

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Author(s)

A Ambrosio, E Cafali, S Spadaro, S Patane, Maria Allegrini, D Albert, E Oesterschulze

Abstract

We demonstrate that tuning fork sensing provides a stable non-contact mode operation when applied to near-field optical microscopy employing cantilevered probes. Detrimental damping effects that have so far limited the practical use of these otherwise very advantageous probes are totally overcome. We validate our tuning fork setup featuring hollow-pyramid probes by an optical nanolithography application.
Citation
Applied Physics Letters

Keywords

hollow-pyramid tips, optical nanolithography, SNOM

Citation

Ambrosio, A. , Cafali, E. , Spadaro, S. , Patane, S. , Allegrini, M. , Albert, D. and Oesterschulze, E. (2021), Non-Contact Tuning Fork Position Sensing for Hollow-Pyramid Near-Field Cantilevered Probes, Applied Physics Letters (Accessed December 11, 2024)

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Created October 12, 2021