- Title
- A review of demodulation techniques for amplitude-modulation atomic force microscopy
- Creator
- Ruppert, Michael G.; Harcombe, David M.; Ragazzon, Michael R. P.; Moheimani, S. O. Reza; Fleming, Andrew J.
- Relation
- Beilstein Journal of Nanotechnology Vol. 8, Issue 10 July 2017, p. 1407-1426
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.3762/bjnano.8.142
- Publisher
- Beilstein - Institut
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2017
- Description
- In this review paper, traditional and novel demodulation methods applicable to amplitude-modulation atomic force microscopy are implemented on a widely used digital processing system. As a crucial bandwidth-limiting component in the z-axis feedback loop of an atomic force microscope, the purpose of the demodulator is to obtain estimates of amplitude and phase of the cantilever deflection signal in the presence of sensor noise or additional distinct frequency components. Specifically for modern multifrequency techniques, where higher harmonic and/or higher eigenmode contributions are present in the oscillation signal, the fidelity of the estimates obtained from some demodulation techniques is not guaranteed. To enable a rigorous comparison, the performance metrics tracking bandwidth, implementation complexity and sensitivity to other frequency components are experimentally evaluated for each method. Finally, the significance of an adequate demodulator bandwidth is highlighted during high-speed tapping-mode atomic force microscopy experiments in constant-height mode.
- Subject
- amplitude estimation; atomic force microscopy; amplitude modulation; digital signal processing; field-programmable gate array
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1348700
- Identifier
- uon:30249
- Identifier
- ISSN:2190-4286
- Rights
- © 2017 Ruppert et al.; licensee Beilstein-Institut. This is an Open Access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
- Language
- eng
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