Force-distance studies with piezoelectric tuning forks below 4.2 K

Details Force-distance studies with piezoelectric tuning forks below 4.2 K Force-distance studies with piezoelectric tuning forks below 4.2 K

2000-05-30

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0005513v1

Appl. Surf. Sci. 157 (2000) 290-294

Physics

Condensed Matter

Scientific paper

10.1016/S0169-4332(99)00541-3

Piezoelectric quartz tuning forks have been employed as the force sensor in a dynamic mode scanning force microscope operating at temperatures down to 1.7 K at He-gas pressures of typically 5 mbar. An electrochemically etched tungsten tip glued to one of the tuning fork prongs acts as the local force sensor. Its oscillation amplitude can be tuned between a few angstroms and tens of nanometers. Quality factors of up to 120000 allow a very accurate measurement of small frequency shifts. Three calibration procedures are compared which allow the determination of the proportionality constant between frequency shift and local force gradient based on the harmonic oscillator model and on electrostatic forces. The calibrated sensor is then used for a study of the interaction between the tip and a HOPG substrate. Force gradient and dissipated power can be recorded simultane-ously. It is found that during approaching the tip to the sample considerable power starts to be dissipated although the force gradient is still negative, i.e. the tip is still in the attractive regime. This observation concurs with experiments with true atomic resolution which seem to require the same tip-sample separation.

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