Effect of normal load and roughness on the nanoscale friction coefficient in the elastic and plastic contact regime

• Aditya Kumar,
• Thorsten Staedler and
• Xin Jiang

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2013, 4, 66–71, doi:10.3762/bjnano.4.7

• , Kogut and Etsion (KE model [9]) improved the CEB model by accounting for the resistance to sliding of plastically deformed asperities using the finite element method. According to them, the contact parameters, such as separation, real area of contact, and real contact pressure, are functions of the

Spring constant of a tuning-fork sensor for dynamic force microscopy

• Dennis van Vörden,
• Manfred Lange,
• Merlin Schmuck,
• Nico Schmidt and
• Rolf Möller

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2012, 3, 809–816, doi:10.3762/bjnano.3.90

• taking account of the real geometry including the glue that is used to mount the tuning fork. Keywords: atomic force microscopy; finite element method; spring constant; thermal fluctuation; tuning fork; Introduction Quartz tuning forks provide excellent self-sensing probes in scanning probe microscopy

• simulation by the finite-element method. Result and Discussion Calculation for a rectangular beam The formula for the spring constant of a beam that is clamped on one side is where E is the Young’s modulus (for quartz), τ is the thickness, w the width, and L the length of a prong. For the cantilevers used in

• simulation using the finite element method To get more insight into the relevant details of the qPlus configuration, numerical calculations by using the method of finite elements were performed. In contrast to the experiment this enables analysis of the influence of one specific parameter, e.g., the

Towards multiple readout application of plasmonic arrays

• Dana Cialla,
• Karina Weber,
• René Böhme,
• Uwe Hübner,
• Henrik Schneidewind,
• Matthias Zeisberger,
• Roland Mattheis,
• Robert Möller and
• Jürgen Popp

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2011, 2, 501–508, doi:10.3762/bjnano.2.54

• plasmonic array was optimized for maximum signal enhancement by finite element method (FEM) simulations (COMSOL Multiphysics). Periodically patterned SERS arrays were fabricated by means of electron beam lithography and Argon ion beam etching. Quartz wafer was coated with 20 nm of gold by vacuum evaporation