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Direct visualization of local deformations in suspended few-layer graphene membranes by coupled in situ atomic force and scanning electron microscopy
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SYSNO ASEP 0541300 Document Type J - Journal Article R&D Document Type Journal Article Subsidiary J Článek ve WOS Title Direct visualization of local deformations in suspended few-layer graphene membranes by coupled in situ atomic force and scanning electron microscopy Author(s) Hummel, S. (AT)
Elibol, K. (AT)
Zhang, D. (CN)
Sampathkumar, Krishna (UFCH-W) ORCID, RID
Frank, Otakar (UFCH-W) RID, ORCID
Eder, D. (AT)
Schwalb, C. (AT)
Kotakoski, J. (AT)
Meyer, J.C. (AT)
Bayer, B. C. (AT)Article number 103104 Source Title Applied Physics Letters. - : AIP Publishing - ISSN 0003-6951
Roč. 118, č. 10 (2021)Number of pages 7 s. Language eng - English Country US - United States Keywords Scanning electron microscopy ; Graphene ; Atomic force microscopy Subject RIV CF - Physical ; Theoretical Chemistry OECD category Physical chemistry R&D Projects 8J18AT005 GA MŠMT - Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports (MEYS) Method of publishing Open access Institutional support UFCH-W - RVO:61388955 UT WOS 000628793200002 EID SCOPUS 85102489169 DOI 10.1063/5.0040522 Annotation Suspended membranes of two-dimensional (2D) materials are of interest for many applications. Much of their characterization relies on scanning probe microscopy (SPM) techniques such as atomic force microscopy (AFM) or scanning tunneling microscopy (STM). Unlike rigid samples, the suspended atomically thin 2D membranes are, however, flexible and do not remain mechanically undisturbed during SPM measurements. Local deformations can occur at the location of the scanning tip and thus result in measurements that misrepresent actual membrane topography and nanomechanical properties. Exact levels of such SPM tip-induced deformations in 2D membranes remain largely unknown, as they are to date only indirectly accessible via dual probe microscope concepts that either are not mechanically independent (e.g., SPM-SPM setups resulting in complicated imaging crosstalk) or suffer from intrinsically limited lateral resolution (e.g., optical far-field techniques as the second probe). Circumventing these shortcomings, we here demonstrate that by coupling an AFM with a scanning electron microscope (SEM) as the second, mechanically independent probe, we can directly and in situ visualize by SEM at high resolution 2D membrane deformations that result from controllable AFM tip manipulations in the nN range. Employing few-layer graphene as model membranes, we discuss the experimental realization of our coupled in situ AFM-SEM approach. Workplace J. Heyrovsky Institute of Physical Chemistry Contact Michaela Knapová, michaela.knapova@jh-inst.cas.cz, Tel.: 266 053 196 Year of Publishing 2022 Electronic address http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0318881
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