Published In

Applied Physics Letters

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

12-1-2005

Subjects

Energy dissipation, Conservation laws (Physics)

Abstract

The dissipative and conservative interactions between a sharp probe and a flat Si sample in the ultrasonic/shear-force microscope are investigated. It is shown that, when working in the ambient condition, there are two distinct probe-sample interaction regions: the pure dissipative interaction region in the relatively far probe-sample distance, and the highly correlated dissipative and conservative interaction region in the close probe-sample distance. The ultrasonic data suggest that the phonon generation is a dissipative channel for the probe-sample interaction in the shear force microscope. A shaking potential model is proposed to explain the phononic friction mechanism

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Article appears in Applied Physics Letters (http://apl.aip.org/) and is copyrighted (2005) by the American Institute of Physics, and can be found at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.2138793. This article may be downloaded for personal use only. Any other use requires prior permission of the author and the American Institute of Physics.

DOI

10.1063/1.2138793

Persistent Identifier

http://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/7319

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