Mechanical nanoprocessing of layered crystal structure materials by atomic force microscopy
Mechanical nanoprocessing of layered crystal structure materials by atomic force microscopy
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DOI:
10.1143/jjap.41.5706
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2002-09-01
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Matsuzaki, K
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作者:
Miyake, S;Matsuzaki, K
We attempted the nanometer-scale mechanical processing of materials with a layered crystal structure by tip sliding with an atomic force microscope, based on the anisotropy of the crystal structures. By mechanically operating a sharp tip. processing mainly occurs to depths equivalent to multiples of the period of the multilayered crystal structure,,. corresponding to the depth from the surface of one cleavap plane to the surface of the cleavage plane beneath it. By applying this mechanism in the mechanical processing of molybdenum disulfide and muscovite mica, high-precision cutting processing of lines and cross grooves can be performed in a layer-period unit of a multilayered crystal material that has periodic weak an der Waals bonds. However, in the processing of graphite, the bond strength of the basal plane is very high, making it difficult to perform the essential nanometer-scale cutting processing. Therefore, to utilize the high bond strength of its basal plane, the bending processing of the graphite basal plane on the nanometer scale was attempted and realized.