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A single probe for imaging photons, electrons and physical forces

Pilet, Nicolas ; Lisunova, Yuliya ; Lamattina, Fabio ; Stevenson, Stephanie E. ; Pigozzi, Giancarlo ; Paruch, Patrycja ; Fink, Rainer H. ; Hug, Hans J. ; Quitmann, Christoph LU and Raabe, Joerg (2016) In Nanotechnology 27(23).
Abstract

The combination of complementary measurement techniques has become a frequent approach to improve scientific knowledge. Pairing of the high lateral resolution scanning force microscopy (SFM) with the spectroscopic information accessible through scanning transmission soft x-ray microscopy (STXM) permits assessing physical and chemical material properties with high spatial resolution. We present progress from the NanoXAS instrument towards using an SFM probe as an x-ray detector for STXM measurements. Just by the variation of one parameter, the SFM probe can be utilised to detect either sample photo-emitted electrons or transmitted photons. This allows the use of a single probe to detect electrons, photons and physical forces of interest.... (More)

The combination of complementary measurement techniques has become a frequent approach to improve scientific knowledge. Pairing of the high lateral resolution scanning force microscopy (SFM) with the spectroscopic information accessible through scanning transmission soft x-ray microscopy (STXM) permits assessing physical and chemical material properties with high spatial resolution. We present progress from the NanoXAS instrument towards using an SFM probe as an x-ray detector for STXM measurements. Just by the variation of one parameter, the SFM probe can be utilised to detect either sample photo-emitted electrons or transmitted photons. This allows the use of a single probe to detect electrons, photons and physical forces of interest. We also show recent progress and demonstrate the current limitations of using a high aspect ratio coaxial SFM probe to detect photo-emitted electrons with very high lateral resolution. Novel probe designs are proposed to further progress in using an SFM probe as a STXM detector.

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carbon nanotube, co-axial tip, electron, photon detection, scanning force microscopy, scanning probe, x-ray microscopy
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Nanotechnology
volume
27
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23
article number
235705
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IOP Publishing
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  • pmid:27146329
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0957-4484
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10.1088/0957-4484/27/23/235705
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English
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  author       = {{Pilet, Nicolas and Lisunova, Yuliya and Lamattina, Fabio and Stevenson, Stephanie E. and Pigozzi, Giancarlo and Paruch, Patrycja and Fink, Rainer H. and Hug, Hans J. and Quitmann, Christoph and Raabe, Joerg}},
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  number       = {{23}},
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  series       = {{Nanotechnology}},
  title        = {{A single probe for imaging photons, electrons and physical forces}},
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  doi          = {{10.1088/0957-4484/27/23/235705}},
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