Research Article

Intermittent-Contact Heterodyne Force Microscopy

Figure 3

Topography (a)–(c) and IC-HFM amplitude ( )–( ) and Phase ( )–( ) images recorded over a same (700 × 700) n surface region of a TiN coating. Images with the same letter (i.e., (a), ( ), and ( )) were simultaneously recorded. Tapping parameters: = 55.52 KHz, = 31% . Ultrasonic parameters: (a)–( ) = 4.800 MHz, = 4.449 MHz; (b)–( ) = 4.800 MHz, = 4.450 MHz; (c)–( ) = 4.800 MHz, = 4.451 MHz. and were kept constant. Greyscale range: (a)–(c) 35 nm; ( ) 3.6 V, ( ) 6.5 V, ( ) 3.2 V; ( ) 4.2 V, ( ) 10 V (out-of-scale), ( ) 5.0 V.
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