Normal and torsional spring constants of atomic force microscope cantilevers

Review of Scientific Instruments

Volumn 75, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1988-1996

  Green, Christopher P ^a   Lioe, Hadi ^a   Cleveland, Jason P ^b   Proksch, Roger ^b   Mulvaney, Paul ^a   Sader, John E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b United States   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; DEFORMATION; FLOW OF FLUIDS; HYDRODYNAMICS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES;

FRICTIONAL FORCE MICROSCOPY; ISOTROPIC MATERIALS; TORSIONAL SPRING CONSTANTS; UNLOADED RESONANT FREQUENCY;

SPRINGS (COMPONENTS);

EID: 3042771616     PISSN: 00346748     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1753100     Document Type: Article

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