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P.I-20<br />

Besocke style quartz tuning fork FM-AFM/STM for use in UHV and<br />

low temperatures<br />

Shawn M. Huston 1 , Rachel T. Port 1 , Katie M. Andrews 1 , and Thomas P. Pearl 1<br />

1 Department <strong>of</strong> Physics, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, USA<br />

The design and operation <strong>of</strong> a Besocke-style scanning probe microscope with both<br />

frequency modulated atomic force and scanning tunneling microscopy capabilities will be<br />

presented. This instrument has been optimized for use at low temperatures, either with<br />

helium or nitrogen cooling, in ultrahigh vacuum. FM-AFM is performed via a quartz<br />

crystal tuning fork in the qPlus sensor configuration. Cooling <strong>of</strong> the microscope is<br />

achieved through the use <strong>of</strong> a top-loaded bath cryostat that cools a pair <strong>of</strong> radiation<br />

shields which house the spring-suspended microscope assembly. This Besocke-style<br />

microscope is designed to record tunneling current and resonance frequency shift for a<br />

conductive tip mounted on the free prong <strong>of</strong> the tuning fork simultaneously Single<br />

molecule images <strong>of</strong> pentacene on Ag(111) at ~5 K recorded in both NC-AFM and STM<br />

modes will be pr<strong>of</strong>fered as a testament to the microscope’s effectiveness.<br />

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