title: Cutting down the forest of peaks in acoustic dynamic atomic force microscopy in liquid.
abstract: Acoustic dynamic force microscopy in liquids is a fundamental technique for the investigation of biological samples under physiological conditions. However, it shows an important drawback that consists of producing a myriad of resonance peaks, known as the forest of peaks, which hides the natural resonance frequency of the cantilever and prevents an optimum operation of the microscope. In this work, we propose a simple remedy for this problem, which consists on adding a small clay damper to the dither piezoelectric. The resulting frequency spectrum exhibits a single resonance peak that is comparable with the one obtained using magnetic excitation.
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Fisica de la Materia Condensada, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, 28049 Madrid, Spain.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Carrasco
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Ares
authors.forename: P J
authors.initials: PJ
authors.lastname: de Pablo
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Gómez-Herrero
mesh_terms: D000162:Acoustics; D004548:Elasticity; D004560:Electricity; D004867:Equipment Design; D008280:Magnetics; D018625:Microscopy, Atomic Force / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods*; D055095:Optics and Photonics; D013499:Surface Properties; D014732:Vibration