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Scanning Probe Microscopy Publications

As usual in science, I have contributed some work to all of the publications that mention me as one of the authors, but not necessarily much to the actual writing and typing. The ones that I essentially wrote myself are, of course, [1] and [6], but also [4] and [5], although their contents came about through close collaboration with Urs Dürig, who also had the original idea to use an oscillating string as a force sensor. On the other hand, there are parts of some publications about which I understand very little.
m I left Canada at the beginning of May 1997, shortly before the guys at McGill succeeded in making the atomically defined force measurement experiment on which the PRL [14] and both [16] and [17] are based. I was no longer involved at that time.

Publications

[1] A. Stalder.
Optical Force Sensing in Scanning Tunneling Microscopy.
Diploma thesis in experimental physics. ETH Zürich (1990).

[2] U. Dürig, O. Züger and A. Stalder.
Interaction Force Detection in Scanning Probe Microscopy: Methods and Applications.
J. Appl. Phys. 72, 1778 (1992).

[3] A. Stalder and U. Dürig.
Ultrahigh Vacuum Compatible Cooling and Vibration Isolation Stage.
Rev. Sci. Instrum. 64, 3644 (1993).

[4] A. Stalder and U. Dürig.
Oscillating String as a Force Sensor in Scanning Force Microscopy.
NATO ASI Series E: Applied Sciences 286, 69 (1995).

[5] A. Stalder and U. Dürig.
Nanoguitar: Oscillating String as Force Sensor.
Rev. Sci. Instrum. 66, 3576 (1995). [pdf]

[6] A. Stalder.
Mechanics and Electronics on the Atomic Scale: A Study using Scanning Probe Methods.
PhD thesis of the University of Fribourg (Switzerland) 1108 (1995).

[7] A. Stalder and U. Dürig.
Study of Plastic Flow in Ultra-small Au Contacts.
J. Vac. Sci. Technol. B14, 1259 (1996).

[8] U. Dürig and A. Stalder.
Adhesion on the Nanometer Scale.
NATO ASI Series E: Applied Sciences 311, 299 (1996).

[9] A. Stalder and U. Dürig.
Study of Yielding Mechanics in Nanometer-sized Au Contacts.
Appl. Phys. Lett. 68, 637 (1996).

[10] U. Dürig and A. Stalder.
Adhesion on the Nanometer Scale.
NATO ASI Series E: Applied Sciences 330 (1997).

[11] U. Dürig, L. Novotny, B. Michel and A. Stalder.
Logarithmic Currrent-to-voltage Converter for Local Probe Microscopy.
Rev. Sci. Instrum. 68, 3814 (1997).

[12] A. Stalder and U. Dürig.
Mechanics on the Nanometer Scale: Experimental Study of Au Nanowires.
Probe Microscopy 1, 135 (1998).

[13] U. Dürig and A. Stalder.
Metal Adhesion on the Nanometer Scale.
Mittal Festschrift, 109 (1998).

[14] G. Cross, A. Schirmeisen, A. Stalder, P. Grütter, M. Tschudy and U. Dürig.
Adhesion Interaction between Atomically Defined Tip and Sample.
Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 4685 (1998).

[15] U. Dürig, A. Stalder and H. Steinauer.
Apparatus and Method for Controlling a Mechanical Oscillator.
United States Patent 5966053 (1999).

[16] A. Schirmeisen, G. Cross, A. Stalder, P. Grütter and U. Dürig.
Metallic Adhesion Forces and Tunneling between Atomically Defined Tip and Sample.
Appl. Phys. A 157, 274 (2000).

[17] A. Schirmeisen, G. Cross, A. Stalder, P. Grütter and U. Dürig.
Metallic Adhesion and Tunneling at the Atomic Scale.
New Journal of Physics 2, 29 (2000).


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