... information with nanoscale resolution. atomic force microscopy bifurcation cantilevers nonlinear dynamical systems numerical analysis The atomic force microscope (AFM) has become an important tool in micro- and nanoscale research since it was invented in the 1980s ( 1 ). A cantilever structure...

... of the microscale AFM cantilever probe are presented. While in previous studies, off-resonance excitation has been used to exploit subnanometer response amplitudes for noncontact atomic force microscopy ( 22 23 24 25 26 27 ), in this work off-resonance excitation is used to introduce nonlinear behavior...

..., or irregular system responses ( 15 ). As the predictability of the cantilever response is the foundation for imaging methods using atomic-force microscopy, these nonlinearities must be understood, compensated for if necessary, or exploited to the advantage of imaging if possible ( 16 ). The interactions...

...Xiaopeng Zhao; Harry Dankowicz Tapping-mode atomic force microscopy has wide applications for probing the nanoscale surface and subsurface properties of a variety of materials in a variety of environments. Strongly nonlinear effects due to large variations in the force field on the probe tip over...