摘要:
An atomic force microscope is provided for sensing displacement of a cantilever (1) based on a scanning tunneling microscopy. Concretely, the present invention comprises a first microscope having a cantilever (1) for sensing atomic force or magnetic force and an STM (Scanning Tunneling Microscope) functioned as a second microscope for sensing tunneling current and keeping the tunneling current constant. It results in the microscope being able to carry out atomic force microscopy and tunneling microscopy without changing a single STM tip (1b) and to control the minimal force between the sample (3) and the tip (1b) to be constant.
摘要:
To form a weak-link Josephson junction of the type employing a thin film of an oxide superconductor, a crystal grain boundary produced reflecting an artificial crystal defect is utilized as the weak-link junction. The crystal grain boundary (45) is formed by a method in which atoms of different species are deposited on a predetermined part (42) of the surface of a substrate (40) the predetermined part of the surface of a substrate (40) is disturbed, or parts of different crystal face orientations are formed at the surface of a substrate (40). Then a superconducting thin film (44) is epitaxially grown on the substrate (43). Alternatively the predetermined part of the superconducting thin film (44) epitaxially grown on a substrate (43) is diffused with atoms of different species hampering a superconducting or the predetermined part of the superconductivity thin film (44) is disturbed, the superconducting thin film (44) is then annealed, Also. a superconducting device employing the weak-link junction is disclosed.
摘要:
A scanning probe microscope in which the deflection of a cantilever (1, 104) caused by the proximity between a stylus (17, 109) and a sample (2) is detected, the relative distance between the sample and a probe at which the level of the deflection detection signal coincides with a reference level is subjected to servo control thereby to control the force exerted on the stylus to a constant level, and the relative positions of the sample and the probe are scanned to produce a three-dimensional image of the surface of the sample. In order to eliminate the error of servo control attributable to the deformation of the cantilever, the deflection detection signal is held with the cantilever set in free standing state, and the signal thus held is used to correct the level of the cantilever deflection detection signal. The servo control is effected by the detection signal thus corrected.