摘要:
A problem to be resolved by the invention resides in providing a multifunction analyzing apparatus for detecting a shape with high resolution and physical property information capable of not only successively reading a base arrangement from end to end but also specifying a position hybridized by known RNA with regard to a single piece of DNA elongated in one direction on a board. A microscope system of the invention is provided with a fluorescence microscope, a scanning near field microscope and a scanning probe microscope as a detecting system, the microscopes are fixed to a switching mechanism and can be moved to a position at which the various microscopes can observe the same portion of a sample by switching operation of the mechanism. The microscope system of the invention is provided with a function capable of directly detecting a shape and physical property information of one piece of DNA by the scanning probe microscope by multifunction scanning.
摘要:
A problem to be resolved by the invention resides in providing a multifunction analyzing apparatus for detecting a shape with high resolution and physical property information capable of not only successively reading a base arrangement from end to end but also specifying a position hybridized by known RNA with regard to a single piece of DNA elongated in one direction on a board. A microscope system of the invention is provided with a fluorescence microscope, a scanning near field microscope and a scanning probe microscope as a detecting system, the microscopes are fixed to a switching mechanism and can be moved to a position at which the various microscopes can observe the same portion of a sample by switching operation of the mechanism. The microscope system of the invention is provided with a function capable of directly detecting a shape and physical property information of one piece of DNA by the scanning probe microscope by multifunction scanning.
摘要:
A signal having a resonant frequency of a cantilever is output by a first oscillator, and supplied to a vibrating element and a control unit to oscillate a probe. A low frequency signal having a large amplitude is output by a second oscillator and supplied to a piezoelectric scanning apparatus. The probe is periodically and relatively moved with respect to the sample between a position where the sample surface is penetrated by the probe and another position where the probe does not penetrate the sample surface and is outside the range of atomic forces caused by the sample. During this movement, the probe movement may be analyzed to obtain a plurality of physical characteristics about the sample, e.g., hardness information of the sample, surface shape information, information related to an adsorption layer of the sample, and information related to physical qualities (for example, electromagnetic field, adsorption force, surface reaction force, electric double layer force in fluid) irradiated from the sample surface along a depth direction.
摘要:
Under the condition that the height is fixed at a target height by turning off a feedback control system of a Z piezoelectric actuator of a cantilever of an atomic force microscope having a probe, which is harder than a processed material, flexure and twisting of the cantilever when carrying out mechanical processing while selectively repeating scanning only on the processed area (in the case of detecting flexure, parallel with the cantilever and in the case of detecting twisting, vertical with the cantilever) is monitored by a quadrant photodiode position sensing detector and the processing is repeated till a flexure amount or a twisting amount, namely, till an elastic deformation amount of the cantilever becomes not more than a determined threshold. It is not necessary to carry out scanning of the observation in obtaining the height information for detection of an end point, so that it is possible to improve a throughput of processing.
摘要:
Fine markers are formed by thrusting a probe, which is harder than material to be processed, the formed fine markers are observed in the course of processing, the drift amount is obtained from the change of the position of the center of gravity of the hole, and the processing is restarted in the processing area corrected by the obtained drift amount.
摘要:
In a method for fabricating a nanometer-scale structure by arranging nanotubes in a predetermined direction at a predetermined position, the method for fabricating a nanometer-scale structure comprises a first step of planarizing a substrate by etching a predetermined part by irradiating a focused energy beam to the sample, a second step of decomposing and depositing an organic gas into a columnar structure with an objective of determining the position and direction, and a third step of attaching and fixing the nanotube by using the thus deposited columnar structure as a standard of position and direction.
摘要:
A conductive probe for a scanning type microscope that captures the substance information of the surface of a specimen by the tip end of a conductive nanotube probe needle fastened to a cantilever, in which the conductive probe is constructed from a conductive film formed on the surface of the cantilever, a conductive nonatube with its base end portion being fixed in contact which the surface of a predetermined of the cantilever, and a conductive deposit which fastens the conductive nanotube by covering from the base end portion of the nonatube to a part of the conductive film. The conductive nonatube and the conductive film are electrically connected to each other by the conductive deposit.
摘要:
A scanning type microscope that captures substance information of the surface of a specimen by the tip end of a nanotube probe needle fastened to a cantilever, in which an organic gas is decomposed by a focused ion beam in a focused ion beam apparatus, and the nanotube is bonded to the cantilever with a deposit of the decomposed component thus produced. With this probe, the quality of the nanotube probe needle can be improved by removing an unnecessary deposit adhering to the nanotube tip end portion using a ion beam, by cutting an unnecessary part of the nanotube in order to control length of the probe needle and by injecting ions into the tip end portion of the nanotube.
摘要:
A probe scanning apparatus for use in a device for measuring the shape of a surface or the physical properties of a sample comprises a probe and voice coil motors for generating a moving force for moving the probe in each of three directions x, y and z upon activation of the voice coil motors. A probe supporting mechanism is mounted for movement in the three directions x, y and z by the moving forces generated by the voice coil motors upon activation thereof to effect coarse/fine movement of the probe in the direction z and to scan the probe in the directions x and y.
摘要:
A scanning probe microscope uses a conductive material as a probe of AFM. The probe scans a sample while the probe is forcibly oscillated by applying alternating current voltage from an oscillator between the probe and the sample. Signals .omega. and 2.omega. from the probe are extracted with an analog processor using a discrete Fourier transformation, so that distribution of surface potential of the sample is obtained using the signals .omega. and 2.omega..