Scanning Probe Microscopy in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology [Hardcover]

This book presents the physical and technical foundation of the state-of-the-art in applied scanning probe techniques. It constitutes a comprehensive overview of SPM applications. The chapters are written by leading researchers and application scientists.

1. Dynamic Force Microscopy and Spectroscopy using the Frequency-Modulation Technique in Air and Liquids.- 2. Colossal Permittivity in Advanced Functional Heterogeneous Materials: The Relevance of the Local Measurements at Submicron Scale.- 3. Scanning Probe Alloying Nanolithography.- 4. Controlling Wear on Nanoscale.- 5. Structural and Mechanical Mechanisms of Ocular Tissues Probed by AFM.- 6. Modern Atomic Force Microscopy and Its Application to the Study of Genome Architecture.- 7. Near-field Nanolitography.- 8. Photonic Force Microscopy: From Femtonewton Force Sensing to Ultra-Sensitive Spectroscopy.- 9. Simultaneous Topography and Recognition Imaging.- 10. Application of Contact Mode AFM to Manufacturing Processes.- 11. Mechanical Properties of One-dimensional Nanostructures.- 12. Contact Potential Difference Techniques as Probing Tools in Tribology and Surface Mapping.- 13. Force-extension (FX) and Force-clamp (FC) AFM Spectroscopies in Investigating Mechanochemical Reactions and Mechanical properties of Single Biomolecules.- 14. Scanning Probe Microscopy as a Tool Applied to Agriculture.- 15. Spin Charge Pairing Instabilities, Magnetism and Ferroelectricity in Nanoclusters, High-Tc Cuprates, Manganites and Multiferroic Nanomaterials.- 16. Combining Atomic Force Microscopy and Depth Sensing Instruments for the Nanometre Scale Mechanical Characterization of Soft Matter.- 17. Structuring the Surface of Crystallizable Polymers with an AFM Tip.- 18. Polarization-sensitive Tip-enhanced Raman Scattering.- 19. Static and Dynamic Structural Modeling Analysis of Atomic Force Microscope.- 20. Carbon Nanotube Atomic Force Microscopy with Applications to Biology and Electronics.- 21. Multilevel Experimeló'