Segmental Calibration for Commercial AFM in Vertical Direction
Atomic force microscopy (AFM) is most widely applied in scientific research and industrial production.AFM is a scanning probe imaging and measuring device,useful for physical and chemical studies.Depends on its basic structure,microscopic surface pattern can be measured and captured by mechanically scanning.Its vertical and horizon resolution can reach to 0.01nm and 0.1nm.Commonly the measurement values of commercial AFM are directly from scanning piezoelectric tube,so that it not a traceable value.In order to solve the problem of commercial AFM’s traceability,step height standard references are applied to calibrate the piezoelectric ceramic housing in scanning tube.All of the serial of step height standard references,covering the commercial AFM vertical scale,are calibrated by Metrology AFM developed by National Institute of Metrology (NIM),China.Three interferometers have been assembled in its XYZ axis,therefore the measurement value can directly trace to laser wavelength.Because of nonlinear characteristic of PZT,the method of segmental calibration is proposed.The measurement scale can be divided into several subsections corresponding to the calibrated values of the series of step height standards references.By this method the accuracy of measurements can be ensured in each segment measurement scale and the calibration level of the whole instrument can be promoted.In order to get a standard step shape by commercial AFM,substrate removal method is applied to deal with the bow shape problem.
Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM) Calibration Traceability Metrology
Yushu Shi Sitian Gao Mingzhen Lu Wei Li Xuefang Xu
National Institute of Metrology, China, Beijing 100013, China Hefei University of Technology,Hefei 230009, China
国际会议
2012第八届精密工程测量和仪器仪表国际研讨会(ISPEMI2012)
成都
英文
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2012-08-08（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）