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ArticleSensors (Basel, Switzerland)2015

Improving the lateral resolution of quartz tuning fork-based sensors in liquid by integrating commercial AFM tips into the fiber end.

Laura Gonzalez, David Martínez-Martín, Jorge Otero, Pedro José de Pablo, Manel Puig-Vidal, Julio Gómez-Herrero

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Article in Sensors (Basel, Switzerland), 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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6 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Laura GonzalezSIC-BIO, Bioelectronics and Nanobioengineering Group, Departament d'Electrònica, Universitat de Barcelona, Marti i Franques 1, 08028 Barcelona, Spain. laura.gonzalez.claramonte@gmail.com.
David Martínez-MartínDepartamento de Física de la Materia Condensada, C-3, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Cantoblanco, 28049 Madrid, Spain. davidmmo@gmail.com.
Jorge OteroSIC-BIO, Bioelectronics and Nanobioengineering Group, Departament d'Electrònica, Universitat de Barcelona, Marti i Franques 1, 08028 Barcelona, Spain. jordi.otero@gmail.com.
Pedro José de PabloDepartamento de Física de la Materia Condensada, C-3, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Cantoblanco, 28049 Madrid, Spain. p.j.depablo@uam.es.
Manel Puig-VidalSIC-BIO, Bioelectronics and Nanobioengineering Group, Departament d'Electrònica, Universitat de Barcelona, Marti i Franques 1, 08028 Barcelona, Spain. manel.puig@ub.edu.
Julio Gómez-HerreroDepartamento de Física de la Materia Condensada, C-3, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Cantoblanco, 28049 Madrid, Spain. julio.gomez@uam.es.
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid · ESUniversitat de Barcelona · ES

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The use of quartz tuning fork sensors as probes for scanning probe microscopy is growing in popularity. Working in shear mode, some methods achieve a lateral resolution comparable with that obtained with standard cantilevered probes, but only in experiments conducted in air or vacuum. Here, we report a method to produce and use commercial AFM tips in electrically driven quartz tuning fork sensors operating in shear mode in a liquid environment. The process is based on attaching a standard AFM tip to the end of a fiber probe which has previously been sharpened. Only the end of the probe is immersed in the buffer solution during imaging. The lateral resolution achieved is about 6 times higher than that of the etched microfiber on its own.

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Optical FibersCalibrationEscherichia coliImaging, Three-DimensionalMicroscopy, Scanning ProbeQuartzSiliconQuartzSilicon

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PMID25594596
PMCPMC4327093
OpenAlexW2090951897

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