期刊
MEASUREMENT SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
卷 27, 期 2, 页码 -出版社
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/0957-0233/27/2/025904
关键词
atomic force microscopy/optical tweezers; optical trap stiffness calibration; force measurements; trap force; nanomanipulation
资金
- NCN [2011/03/B/ST8/05481]
The role of mechanical properties is essential to understand molecular, biological materials, and nanostructures dynamics and interaction processes. Atomic force microscopy (AFM) is the most commonly used method of direct force evaluation, but due to its technical limitations this single probe technique is unable to detect forces with femtonewton resolution. In this paper we present the development of a combined atomic force microscopy and optical tweezers (AFM/OT) instrument. The focused laser beam, on which optical tweezers are based, provides us with the ability to manipulate small dielectric objects and to use it as a high spatial and temporal resolution displacement and force sensor in the same AFM scanning zone. We demonstrate the possibility to develop a combined instrument with high potential in nanomechanics, molecules manipulation and biological studies. AFM/OT equipment is described and characterized by studying the ability to trap dielectric objects and quantifying the detectable and applicable forces. Finally, optical tweezers calibration methods and instrument applications are given.
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