The FAST module: An add-on unit for driving commercial scanning probe microscopes at video rate and beyond

Review of Scientific Instruments

Volumn 82, Issue 5, 2011, Pages

  Esch, Friedrich ^a,d   Dri, Carlo ^a   Spessot, Alessio ^a,e   Africh, Cristina ^a   Cautero, Giuseppe ^b   Giuressi, Dario ^b   Sergo, Rudi ^b   Tommasini, Riccardo ^b   Comelli, Giovanni ^a,c  

^a IOM CNR LABORATORIO TASC   (Italy)

^b SINCROTRONE TRIESTE   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE   (Italy)

^d TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^e Micron Technology R and D Technology Development   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTROL ELECTRONICS; FAST ACQUISITION; FAST SCANNING; FRAME RATE; HIGH SPEED SCANNING; HIGH-RESOLUTION IMAGING; NON-INVASIVE; SCANNING FREQUENCY; SCANNING PROBE INSTRUMENT; SCANNING PROBE MICROSCOPE; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPES; SIGNAL ACQUISITIONS; SLOW MODE; TECHNICAL SOLUTIONS; VIDEO RATES; VIDEO-RATE IMAGES;

MICROSCOPES; PROBES; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

SCANNING;

EID: 79958069670     PISSN: 00346748     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3585984     Document Type: Article

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