FemtoScan Omega

In scanning probe microscope FemtoScan Omega a registering element is highsound quartz tuning fork with the probe fixed on it.

The quartz plug allows to realize a resonant method of scanning which is widely used in SPM, with good quality in hundreds times of greater, than at usual SPM-tips. The resonant method of scanning allows to reduce influence of capillary forces, which increase force influence of a probe to the sample, that causes additional deformations of macromolecules, destruction and instability during scanning.

• Resonant atomic-force microscopy
• Scanning tunnel microscopy
• Scanning resistive microscopy
  

• Absence of a gradient of temperature between a probe and the sample
• The high spatial resolution
• Absence of uncontrollable heating of a needle of the sample
• Measurements on air and in vacuum
• Measurements at the lowered and low temperatures

The image of calibrating lattice, received by a quartz scanning microscope on change of amplitude (at the left) and frequencies (on the right):