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Vectorial scanning force microscopy using a nanowire sensor

Rossi, Nicola
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Braakman, Floris R.
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Cadeddu, Davide
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2017
Nature Nanotechnology

Self-assembled nanowire (NW) crystals can be grown into nearly defect-free nanomechanical resonators with exceptional properties, including small motional mass, high resonant frequency and low dissipation. Furthermore, by virtue of slight asymmetries in geometry, a NW's flexural modes are split into doublets oscillating along orthogonal axes. These characteristics make bottom-up grown NWs extremely sensitive vectorial force sensors. Here, taking advantage of its adaptability as a scanning probe, we use a single NW to image a sample surface. By monitoring the frequency shift and direction of oscillation of both modes as we scan above the surface, we construct a map of all spatial tip-sample force derivatives in the plane. Finally, we use the NW to image electric force fields distinguishing between forces arising from the NW charge and polarizability. This universally applicable technique enables a form of atomic force microscopy particularly suited to mapping the size and direction of weak tip-sample forces.

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DOI
10.1038/Nnano.2016.189
Web of Science ID

WOS:000394195500013

Author(s)
Rossi, Nicola
Braakman, Floris R.
Cadeddu, Davide
Vasyukov, Denis
Tuetuencueoglu, Goezde  
Fontcuberta I Morral, Anna  
Poggio, Martino
Date Issued

2017

Publisher

Nature Publishing Group

Published in
Nature Nanotechnology
Volume

12

Issue

2

Start page

150

End page

155

URL

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https://poggiolab.unibas.ch/full/NWAFM.pdf
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REVIEWED

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March 27, 2017
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https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/135926
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