Tapping Mode™ scanning

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Tamayo, J. and Garcia, R., Relationship between phase shift and energy dissipation in tapping-mode scanning force microscopy. Appl Phys. Lett., 73(20), 2926-2928 (1998). Gotsmann, B., Seidel, C., Anezykowski, B. and Fuchs, H., Conservative and dissipative tip-sample interaction forces probed with dynamic AFM. Phys. Rev. B Condens. Matter, 60, 11051-11061 (1999). 

Leuba, S.H., Yang, G., Robert, C., Samori, B., van Holde, K., Zlatanova, J., and Bustamante, C. (1994) Three-dimensional structure of extended chromatin fibers as revealed by tapping-mode scanning force microscopy. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. USA 91, 11621-11625. 

Figure 15 Tapping mode-scanning force microscopy images of cytochrome c oxidase immobilized in a lipid bilayer membrane on an electrode, (a) topographic image, (b) phase contrast image.

S. Herminghaus, A. Fery, and D. Reim, Imaging of droplets of aqueous solutions by tapping-mode scanning force microscopy. Ultramicroscopy, 69,211(1997). 

J. Tamayo and R. Garcia, Deformation, contact time and phase contrast in tapping mode scanning force microscopy, Langmuir, 12, 4430-4435 C1999]. 

Proksch, R. Lai, R. Hansma, P. K. Morse, D. Stucky, G. Imaging the internal and external pore structure of membranes in fluid Tapping mode scanning ion conductance microscopy. Biophys J 1996, 71, 2155-2157. 

Stocker W, Beckmann J, Stadler R and Rabe J P (1996) Surface reconstruction of the lamellar morphology in a symmetric poly(styrene-6ZocA -butadiene-6Zocl -methyl methacrylate) triblock copolymer a tapping mode scanning force microscopy study, Macromolecvles 29 7502-7507. 

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