A single probe for imaging photons, electrons and physical forces
(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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- 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
- organization
- publishing date
- 2016-05-05
- type
- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- carbon nanotube, co-axial tip, electron, photon detection, scanning force microscopy, scanning probe, x-ray microscopy
- in
- Nanotechnology
- volume
- 27
- issue
- 23
- article number
- 235705
- publisher
- IOP Publishing
- external identifiers
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- scopus:84969520085
- pmid:27146329
- wos:000376404100020
- ISSN
- 0957-4484
- DOI
- 10.1088/0957-4484/27/23/235705
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
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- 3dff0f80-100b-47ae-b910-0ca0f3f0926c
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- 2016-09-28 12:48:34
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- 2024-06-28 15:58:24
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