Piezoelectric PZT Cantilever Array Integrated with Piezoresistor for High Speed Operation and Calibration of Atomic Force Microscopy

  • Nam, Hyo-Jin (Microsystem Group, LG Electronics Institute of Technology) ;
  • Kim, Young-Sik (Microsystem Group, LG Electronics Institute of Technology) ;
  • Cho, Seong-Moon (Microsystem Group, LG Electronics Institute of Technology) ;
  • Lee, Caroline-Sunyong (Microsystem Group, LG Electronics Institute of Technology) ;
  • Bu, Jong-Uk (Microsystem Group, LG Electronics Institute of Technology) ;
  • Hong, Jae-Wan (School of Physics, Seoul National University)
  • 발행 : 2002.12.01

초록

Two kinds of PZT cantilevers integrated with a piezoresistor have been newly designed, fabricated, and characterized for high speed AFM. In first cantilever, a piezoresistor is used to sense atomic force acting on tip, while in second cantilever, a piezoresistor is integrated to calibrate hysteresis and creep phenomena of the PZT cantilever. The fabricated PZT cantilevers provide high tip displacement of $0.55\mu\textrm{m}/V$ and high resonant frequency of 73 KHz. A new cantilever structure has been designed to prevent electrical coupling between sensor and PZT actuator and the proposed cantilever shows 5 times lower coupling voltage than that of the previous cantilever. The fabricated PZT cantilever shows a crisp scanned image at 1mm/sec, while the conventional piezo-tube scanner shows blurred image even at $180\mu\textrm{m}/sec$. The non-linear properties of the PZT actuator are also well calibrated using the piezoresistive sensor for calibration.

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