Title
3-D Nanomanipulation Using Atomic Force Microscopy
Abstract
The use of atomic force microscope (AFM) as a nanomanipulator has been evolving for various kinds of nanomanipulation tasks. Due to the bow effect of the piezo scanner of the AFM, the AFM space is different from the Cartesian space. In this paper, different 3-D nanomanipulation tasks using AFM such as nanolithography, pushing and cutting are discussed. 3-D path planning are performed directly in the AFM space and the 3-D paths are generated based on the 3-D topography information of the surface represented in the AFM space. This approach can avoid the mappings between the AFM space and Cartesian space in planning. By following the generated motion paths, the tip can either follow the topography of the surface or move across the surface by avoiding collision with bumps. Nanomanipulation using this method can be considered as the "true" 3-D operations since the cantilever tip can be controlled to follow any desired 3-D trajectory within the range of AFM space. The experimental study shows the effectiveness of the planning and control scheme.
Year
DOI
Venue
2003
10.1109/ROBOT.2003.1242155
2003 IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ROBOTICS AND AUTOMATION, VOLS 1-3, PROCEEDINGS
Keywords
Field
DocType
surface topography,nanolithography,atomic force microscope,path planning,atomic force microscopy
Motion planning,Nanomanipulator,Atomic force microscopy,Cantilever,Optics,Scanner,Nanolithography,Engineering,Trajectory,Cartesian coordinate system
Conference
Volume
Issue
ISSN
3
1
1050-4729
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
10
2.09
3
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Guangyong Li19517.92
Ning Xi21422228.89
Mengmeng Yu3356.54
Wai-keung Fung49215.24