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Piezoelectric Force Sensing Pb(Zr,Ti)O3 Microcantilever Array for Multiprobe Scanning Force Microscopy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 February 2011

T. Itoh ,
C. Lee ,
J. Chu  and
T. Suga
T. Itoh
Affiliation:
RCAST, The University of Tokyo, Komaba 4–6–1, Meguro-ku, Tokyo 153, Japan, [email protected]
C. Lee
Affiliation:
Mechanical Engineering Laboratory, AIST, MITI, Namiki 1–2, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305, Japan
J. Chu
Affiliation:
RCAST, The University of Tokyo, Komaba 4–6–1, Meguro-ku, Tokyo 153, Japan, [email protected]
T. Suga
Affiliation:
RCAST, The University of Tokyo, Komaba 4–6–1, Meguro-ku, Tokyo 153, Japan, [email protected]
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Abstract

This paper reports on a multiprobe scanning force microscope (SFM) utilizing an array of individually controlled piezoelectric Pb(Zr,Ti)O3 (PZT) microcantilevers. Each cantilever is unimorph beam including a sol-gel derived PZT thin film that has high piezoelectric constants in comparison with sputtered ZnO films. The cantilever is excited and actuated in z direction by applying ac and feedback dc voltages to the PZT layer. The variation of vibration amplitude is detected by measuring the change of current through the PZT layer. The 200-μm-long PZT microcantilever with the natural resonance frequency of 63.8 kHz has the high actuation sensitivity of 150 nmN and the maximum range of more than 1.5 μm. By actuating the self-excited cantilever to keep the current constant, we have succeeded in independent dynamic operation without z feedback actuation of the sample-side scanner. We have obtained independent parallel 2 × 1 images using two cantilevers of the array.

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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 444: Symposium I – Materials for Mechanical and Optical Microsystems , 1996 , 59
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1997

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