title: Note: Single-polarity high-voltage amplifier to drive coarse-approach slip-stick piezoelectric motors.
abstract: Scanning probe microscopies typically rely on coarse-approach slip-stick piezoelectric motors that work by exciting piezoelectric stacks with sawtooth signals of hundreds of V and some kHz. For this application, we introduce a single-polarity high-voltage amplifier based on discrete MOSFET-technology components with improved output current desirable for low-temperature actuation. The amplifier has an output signal of 600 V, 100 mA output current, noise level below 2 μV/√Hz, 4 kHz high-voltage bandwidth, 2 V/μs slew-rate, and rise and fall times of 80 μs (when loaded with 30 nF). The circuit was successfully applied to drive a home-made scanning tunnelling microscope.
authors.affiliation: Instituto Balseiro and Low Temperatures Laboratory, Centro Atómico Bariloche, 8400 Bariloche, Argentina.
authors.forename: Cristian H
authors.initials: CH
authors.lastname: Belussi
authors.forename: Mariano
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Gómez Berisso
authors.forename: Yanina
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Fasano