Solution to the bistability problem in shear force distance regulation encountered in scanning force and near-field optical microscopes

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 71, Issue 17, 1997, Pages 2541-2543

  Zvyagin, A V ^a   White, J D ^a,b   Kourogi, M ^a   Kozuma, M ^a   Ohtsu, M ^a  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b KANAGAWA ACADEMY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

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EID: 0013442378     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.120111     Document Type: Article

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