CONTENTS
Contributors xiii
PART I: FUNDAMENTALS OF OPERATION 1
1 Introduction 3 Dawn A. Bonneil
2 Basic Principles of Scanning Probe Microscopy 7 Dawn A. Bonneil
and Bryan D. Huey
2.1 The Local Probe Approach / 8 2.2 Principles of Electron
Tunneling / 8 2.3 Principles of Atomic Forces / 14 2.4 System
Design / 22 2.5 Data Analysis / 32
3 Theory of Scanning Tunneling Microscopy 43 J. Tersoff
3.1 Introduction / 43 3.2 Theory of STM / 44 3.3 Metal Surfaces:
STM as Surface Topography / 48 3.4 Semiconducting Surfaces: Role of
Surface
Electronic Structure / 51 3.5 Mechanical Tip-Sample Interactions /
54
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4 Methods of Tunneling Spectroscopy with the STM 59 R. J. Hamers
and D. F. Padowitz
4.1 Introduction / 60 4.2 Voltage-Dependent STM Imaging / 62 4.3
Modulation Techniques: STS / 73 4.4 Local /- V Measurements / 78
4.5 General Features of Tunneling Spectra / 92 4.6 Other
Spectroscopies / 101 4.7 Summary / 106
PART II: TIPS AND SURFACES 111
5 The Surface Structure of Crystalline Solids 113 W. N.
Unertl
5.1 Ideal Surfaces of Crystalline Materials / 115 5.2 Thermodynamic
Properties of Surfaces / 126 5.3 Defects and the Surfaces of Real
Materials / 139 5.4 Traditional Techniques for Surface
Structure Determination / 145 5.5 The Role for STM and AFM /
149
6 The Preparation of Tip and Sample Surfaces for Scanning Probe
Experiments 155 Richard L. Smith and Gregory S. Rohr er
6.1 The Preparation of Scanning Tunneling Microscopy Tips /
156
6.2 The Preparation of Scanning Force Microscopy Tips / 172 6.3
Sample Surface Preparation / 182
PART III: APPLICATIONS OF SCANNING PROBE MICROSCOPY 203
7 Electrostatic and Magnetic Force Microscopy 205 Sergei V. Kalinin
and Dawn A. Bonneil
7.1 Introduction / 205 7.2 Electrostatic Probe Imaging / 207 7.3
Magnetic Probe Imaging / 230 7.4 Recent Advances in SPM / 245
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8 BEEM and the Characterization of Buried Interfaces 253 W. J.
Kaiser, L. D. Bell, M. H. Hecht and L. C. Davis
8.1 Introduction / 254 8.2 Theory / 257 8.3 Experimental
Considerations / 268 8.4 Results / 271 8.5 Recent Applications of
BEEM / 284 8.6 Summary / 285
9 The Scanning Probe Microscope in Biology 289 S. M. Lindsay
9.1 Introduction / 290 9.2 Fundamentals of AFM: Sensitivity and
Resolution / 291 9.3 Interactions at a Liquid-Solid Interface / 296
9.4 Mechanics of the AFM Cantilever in a Fluid / 301 9.5 Mechanism
of Dynamic Force Microscopy
in Fluid / 302 9.6 Practical Instrumentation / 313 9.7 Sample
Preparation / 315 9.8 Imaging / 319 9.9 Nonlinear Elasticity of
Individual Molecules / 321 9.10 Chemical Bonds and Antibody-Antigen
Interactions / 324 9.11 STM Images and Electrical
Measurements
on Single Molecules / 326 9.12 Future Developments / 330
10 Nanomechanics 337 Nancy A. Burnham and Richard J. Colton
10.1 Introduction / 338 10.2 Nanomechanics / 339 10.3 Interpreting
the Experiment / 355 10.4 Summary / 364
11 Near-Field Scanning Optical Microscopy 371 Daniel A. Higgins and
Erwen Mei
11.1 Introduction / 372 11.2 Theory / 375 11.3 Instrumentation /
382 11.4 Emerging NSOM Methods and Applications / 403 11.5
Conclusions / 413
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12 Applications in Electrochemistry Allan J. Bard and Fu-Ren F.
Fan
12.1 Apparatus for Electrochemical STM / 422 12.2 Applications of
Electrochemical STM / 429 12.3 Scanning Electrochemical Microscopy
/ 443 12.4 Summary / 447
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APPENDICES
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Appendix III Empiricai Simulation of STM Images: Application to
Oxides
Appendix IV Caiculations of Tunneling Current
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