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, germanium, etc). Recent improvements of this potential [103] do not modify the results presented below.
In the case of graphite, the van der Waals interaction between two layers is described by a standard Lennard-Jones potential:
with ε = 0.011 eV and σ = 3.2963 Å.
Results and Discussion
Graphite surface
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Illustration of constant-height and constant-Δf imaging modes in nc-AFM. We consider, as an illustr...