{"id":3909,"date":"2015-08-17T01:00:31","date_gmt":"2015-08-16T22:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nanosensors.com\/blog\/partial-coatings-of-afm-cantilevers-i-2\/"},"modified":"2023-03-15T14:54:25","modified_gmt":"2023-03-15T12:54:25","slug":"partial-coatings-of-afm-cantilevers-i-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nanosensors.com\/blog\/partial-coatings-of-afm-cantilevers-i-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Partial Coatings of AFM Cantilevers I"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Zeno Schumacher, Yoichi Miyahara and Peter Gr\u00fctter from McGill University, Montreal together with our colleague Laure Aeschimann from NANOSENSORS\u2122 are showing in their current publication \u201cImproved atomic force microscopy cantilever performance by partial reflective coating\u201d (Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2015, 6, 1450\u20131456) the advantages of partially coated AFM cantilevers.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_775\" style=\"width: 2525px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nanosensors.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/PCpaper_fig1_3-2515-1324-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-775\" class=\"wp-image-775 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/nanosensors.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/PCpaper_fig1_3-2515-1324-2.jpg\" alt=\"Q-factors of NCLR cantilevers with different coating coverage percentages measured in high vacuum. From: Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2015, 6, 1450\u20131456.\" width=\"2515\" height=\"1324\" data-wp-pid=\"758\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-775\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Q-factors of NCLR cantilevers with different coating coverage percentages measured in high vacuum. From: Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2015, 6, 1450\u20131456.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>They coated cantilevers with coating coverages from 15 to 100% and measured low-frequency noise and Q-factors. In the graph above shows the Q-factors of NCLR cantilevers with different coating coverage percentages measured in high vacuum. A 30 nm Al coating was added to a 7 \u03bcm thick NANOSENSORS\u2122 NCLR cantilever. Adding a complete reflective coating to the cantilever will reduce the Q-factor by half compared to the uncoated cantilevers. By minimizing the coating to 20% of the cantilever length the same Q-factor as that of the uncoated cantilever can be achieved.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.beilstein-journals.org\/bjnano\/single\/articleFullText.htm?publicId=2190-4286-6-150\">The original article can be found on the Beilstein Journal of Nanotechnology website<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zeno Schumacher, Yoichi Miyahara and Peter Gr\u00fctter from McGill University, Montreal together with our colleague Laure Aeschimann from NANOSENSORS\u2122 are showing in their current publication \u201cImproved atomic force microscopy cantilever performance by partial reflective coating\u201d (Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2015, 6, 1450\u20131456) the advantages of partially coated AFM cantilevers. They coated cantilevers with coating coverages from&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nanosensors.com\/blog\/partial-coatings-of-afm-cantilevers-i-2\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Partial Coatings of AFM Cantilevers I<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3912,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[82,17,18,218,105,98,106,50],"class_list":["post-3909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science-technology","tag-afm-cantilever","tag-afm-probes","tag-afm-tips","tag-force-noise","tag-partial-coating","tag-q-factor","tag-reflex-coating","tag-uniqprobe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nanosensors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nanosensors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nanosensors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nanosensors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nanosensors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nanosensors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3909\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nanosensors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nanosensors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nanosensors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nanosensors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}