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20 August 2020 Tapping mode photonic force microscopy
Matthias Allkemper, Alexander Rohrbach
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Abstract
Photonic Force Microscopy (PFM) uses optically trapped nanoparticles to measure forces in the sub-piconewton range. This makes it a very soft probing technique that is perfectly suited to investigate surface interactions with biological samples. In addition, PFMs can be used in scan mode to create surface-profiles with a resolution better than the optical diffraction limit. A common problem for probing techniques that operate in contact mode is sticking of the probe to the sample. To overcome this problem, we present an intermittent contact mode PFM to improve the technique’s robustness by reducing contact times and binding between sample and probe.
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Matthias Allkemper and Alexander Rohrbach "Tapping mode photonic force microscopy", Proc. SPIE 11463, Optical Trapping and Optical Micromanipulation XVII, 114630M (20 August 2020); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2568057
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KEYWORDS
Photonic microstructures

Microscopy

Atomic force microscopy

Profiling

3D scanning

Bacteria

Biomedical optics

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