- Title
- A new method for robust damping and tracking control of scanning probe microscope positioning stages
- Creator
- Fleming, Andrew J.; Aphale, Sumeet S.; Moheimani, S. O. Reza
- Relation
- IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology Vol. 9, Issue 4, p. 438-448
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TNANO.2009.2032418
- Publisher
- Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2010
- Description
- This paper demonstrates a simple second-order controller that eliminates scan-induced oscillation and provides integral tracking action. The controller can be retrofitted to any scanning probe microscope with position sensors by implementing a simple digital controller or operational amplifier circuit. The controller is demonstrated to improve the tracking bandwidth of an NT-MDT scanning probe microscope from 15 Hz (with an integral controller) to 490 Hz while simultaneously improving gain-margin from 2 to 7 dB. The penalty on sensor induced positioning noise is minimal. A unique benefit of the proposed control scheme is the performance and stability robustness with respect to variations in resonance frequency. This is demonstrated experimentally by a change in resonance frequency from 934 to 140 Hz. This change does not compromise stability or significantly degrade performance. For the scanning probe microscope considered in this paper, the noise is marginally increased from 0.30 to 0.39 nm rms. Open and closed-loop experimental images of a calibration standard are reported at speeds of 1, 10, and 31 lines per second (with a scanner resonance frequency of 290 Hz). Compared with traditional integral controllers, the proposed controller provides a bandwidth improvement of greater than 10 times. This allows faster imaging and less tracking lag at low speeds.
- Subject
- damping; instrumentation; position control; scanning probe microscopy; stability
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/931957
- Identifier
- uon:11217
- Identifier
- ISSN:1536-125X
- Rights
- Copyright © 2010 IEEE. Reprinted from IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology Vol. 9, Issue 4, p. 438-448. This material is posted here with permission of the IEEE. Such permission of the IEEE does not in any way imply IEEE endorsement of any of the University of Newcastle's products or services. Internal or personal use of this material is permitted. However, permission to reprint/republish this material for advertising or promotional purposes or for creating new collective works for resale or redistribution must be obtained from the IEEE by writing to pubs-permissions@ieee.org. By choosing to view this document, you agree to all provisions of the copyright laws protecting it.
- Language
- eng
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