Interatomic force laws that evade dynamic measurement

John E Sader; Barry D Hughes; Ferdinand Huber; Franz J Giessibl

doi:10.1038/s41565-018-0277-x

Interatomic force laws that evade dynamic measurement

Nat Nanotechnol. 2018 Dec;13(12):1088-1091. doi: 10.1038/s41565-018-0277-x.

Authors

John E Sader^{1

2}, Barry D Hughes³, Ferdinand Huber⁴, Franz J Giessibl⁴

Affiliations

¹ ARC Centre of Excellence in Exciton Science, The University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. jsader@unimelb.edu.au.
² School of Mathematics and Statistics, The University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. jsader@unimelb.edu.au.
³ School of Mathematics and Statistics, The University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
⁴ Institute of Experimental and Applied Physics, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany.

PMID: 30523295
DOI: 10.1038/s41565-018-0277-x

Abstract

Measurement of the force between two atoms is performed routinely with the atomic force microscope. The shape of this interatomic force law is now found to directly regulate this capability: rapidly varying interatomic force laws, which are common in nature, can corrupt their own measurement.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't