Sampling microscopy

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In the standard TLS model, their spatial distribution is random. In real samples, TLS s might be more concentrated around defects or particularly disordered regions of the sample. Microscopy of single molecules, especially with near-field resolution might help correlate TLS s with defects or structures in the sample. In samples with artificial structures, the influence of external parameters on spectral jumps and TLS s could be studied. 

Principles and Characteristics Many analytical techniques lend themselves to a microscopical approach so that the analysis may be applied to particles or tiny areas of larger samples. Microscopy provides information about the structure, distribution, organisation and chemical composition of objects. Some newly-developed forms of microscopy technically have little in common with traditional types of microscopy, but are nevertheless considered to be microscopy since they fulfil the basic function of a microscope, that of providing information about fine details in an object. 

Transmission electron microscopy (TEM) can resolve features down to about 1 nm and allows the use of electron diffraction to characterize the structure. Since electrons must pass through the sample however, the technique is limited to thin films. One cryoelectron microscopic study of fatty-acid Langmuir films on vitrified water [13] showed faceted crystals. The application of TEM to Langmuir-Blodgett films is discussed in Chapter XV. 

AM Acoustic microscopy [100] High-frequency acoustic waves are rastered across sample Surface and below-surface structure... 

NSOM Near-Held scanning optical microscopy [103a] Light from a sharp tip scatters off sample Surface structure to 3 nm... 

SIAM Scanning interferometric apertureless microscopy [103b] Laser light is reflected off the substrate, and scattering between an AFM tip and sample is processed interferometrically Diffraction Surface structure... 

One of the more recent advances in XPS is the development of photoelectron microscopy [ ]. By either focusing the incident x-ray beam, or by using electrostatic lenses to image a small spot on the sample, spatially-resolved XPS has become feasible. The limits to the spatial resolution are currently of the order of 1 pm, but are expected to improve. This teclmique has many teclmological applications. For example, the chemical makeup of micromechanical and microelectronic devices can be monitored on the scale of the device dimensions. 

The most popular of the scanning probe tecimiques are STM and atomic force microscopy (AFM). STM and AFM provide images of the outemiost layer of a surface with atomic resolution. STM measures the spatial distribution of the surface electronic density by monitoring the tiumelling of electrons either from the sample to the tip or from the tip to the sample. This provides a map of the density of filled or empty electronic states, respectively. The variations in surface electron density are generally correlated with the atomic positions. 

AFM measures the spatial distribution of the forces between an ultrafme tip and the sample. This distribution of these forces is also highly correlated with the atomic structure. STM is able to image many semiconductor and metal surfaces with atomic resolution. AFM is necessary for insulating materials, however, as electron conduction is required for STM in order to achieve tiumelling. Note that there are many modes of operation for these instruments, and many variations in use. In addition, there are other types of scaiming probe microscopies under development. 

Raman microscopy is particularly adept at providing infonuation on heterogeneous samples, where a... 

The history of EM (for an overview see table Bl.17,1) can be interpreted as the development of two concepts the electron beam either illuminates a large area of tire sample ( flood-beam illumination , as in the typical transmission electron microscope (TEM) imaging using a spread-out beam) or just one point, i.e. focused to the smallest spot possible, which is then scaimed across the sample (scaiming transmission electron microscopy (STEM) or scaiming electron microscopy (SEM)). In both situations the electron beam is considered as a matter wave interacting with the sample and microscopy simply studies the interaction of the scattered electrons. 

Lateral force microscopy (LFM) has provided a new tool for the investigation of tribological (friction and wear) phenomena on a nanometre scale [110]. Alternatively known as friction force microscopy (FFM), this variant of AFM focuses on the lateral forces experienced by the tip as it traverses the sample surface, which... 

Rohrer G 1993 The preparation of tip and sample surfaces for STM experiments Scanning Tunnelling Microscopy and Spectroscopy ed D A Bonnell (Weinheim VCH) ch 6... 

Miyatani T, Florii M, Rosa A, Fu]ihira M and Marti O 1997 Mapping of electric double-layer force between tip and sample surfaces in water with pulsed-force-mode atomic force microscopy Appl. Phys. Lett. 71 2632... 

For bulk structural detemiination (see chapter B 1.9). the main teclmique used has been x-ray diffraction (XRD). Several other teclmiques are also available for more specialized applications, including electron diffraction (ED) for thin film structures and gas-phase molecules neutron diffraction (ND) and nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) for magnetic studies (see chapter B1.12 and chapter B1.13) x-ray absorption fine structure (XAFS) for local structures in small or unstable samples and other spectroscopies to examine local structures in molecules. Electron microscopy also plays an important role, primarily tlirough unaging (see chapter B1.17). 

Figure Bl.24.17. An example of scanning transmission ion microscopy (STIM) measurements of a human oral cancer cell. The different images indicate different windows in the energy of transmitted helium ions as indicated in the figure. White indicate areas of high counts. The teclmique offers a thickness scan through the sample, and, in this case, the cell walls of one specific cell can be seen in the areas dominated by thicker structures (data from C A Pineda, National Accelerator Centre, Fame, South Africa).

Apart from the sheer complexity of the static stmctures of biomolecules, they are also rather labile. On the one hand this means that especial consideration must be given to the fact (for example in electron microscopy) that samples have to be dried, possibly stained, and then measured in high vacuum, which may introduce artifacts into the observed images [5]. On the other, apart from the vexing question of whether a protein in a crystal has the same stmcture as one freely diffusing in solution, the static stmcture resulting from an x-ray diffraction experiment gives few clues to the molecular motions on which operation of an enzyme depends [6]. 

In many ways the nanocrystal characterization problem is an ideal one for transmission electron microscopy (TEM). Here, an electron beam is used to image a thin sample in transmission mode [119]. The resolution is a sensitive fimction of the beam voltage and electron optics a low-resolution microscope operating at 100 kV might... 

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