AFM with Copper-Oxide Tips

AFM with copper-oxide tips: Imaging atoms in real space with elemental selectivity

Author(s): Harry Mönig

Publication: Bunsen-Magazin 2025, 3, 108-111

Publisher: Deutsche Bunsen-Gesellschaft für physikalische Chemie e.V., Frankfurt

Language: English

DOI: 10.26125/z3pa-7387

Abstract: Tip functionalization in AFM allows imaging organic nano-structures with sub-molecular resolution. Here, recent progress by using atomically defined copper-oxide tips is discussed. With their outstanding rigidity and elemental selectivity on metal-oxide surfaces, these probes constitute a powerful approach for the atomic-scale characterization of metal-oxide surfaces and a major step towards standardized scanning probe microscopy.

Cite this:  H. Mönig, Bunsen-Magazin 2025, 3, 108-111, DOI: 10.26125/z3pa-7387

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