A method of determination and control over the constancy of the characteristics of the micro-probes of atomic-force microscopes in the course of their operation is proposed. Results of comparative studies of the characteristics of ordinary silicon cantilevers and cantilevers with a thread-like tip made of carbon are presented. Thread-like cantilevers possess points with effective radius one-fifth that of silicon cantilevers. However, the reproducibility of the results obtained by thread-like cantilevers is somewhat worse.
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Translated from Izmeritel’naya Tekhnika, No. 7, pp. 17–19, July, 2007.
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Kuzin, A.Y., Lakhov, V.M., Novikov, Y.A. et al. A study of the characteristics of the cantilevers of atomic-force microscopes. Meas Tech 52, 709–712 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11018-009-9333-0
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