AFM tips: How sharp are they?

Journal of Microscopy

Volumn 196, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 1-5

  Sheng, S ^a   Czajkowsky, D M ^a   Shao, Zhifeng ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

AFM; F actin; Reconstruction; Resolution; Tip

Indexed keywords

ASPECT RATIO; NITROGEN COMPOUNDS; PROTEINS;

AFM; AFM IMAGE; AFM TIP; CONICAL ANGLES; F-ACTIN; RADII OF CURVATURE; RECONSTRUCTION; RESOLUTION; SIMPLE++; TIP;

SILICON COMPOUNDS;

ARTICLE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0032859409     PISSN: 00222720     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2818.1999.00601.x     Document Type: Article

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