In atomic force microscopy (AFM), the measured force between tip and substrate is used to produce images with subatomic resolution. In this thesis, plausible electrostatic interactions between tip-substrate is studied and compared with the experimental results in the report Vibrations of a molecule in an external force field by Okabayashi et al.. A simplified model gives by hand that the interaction between substrate and tip is dominated by a point charge - point charge relation due to the interatomic distances in AFM. We find that the electrostatic interaction can reproduce the experiment down to a limit of z ~ 3 Å. Further, we find that the tip interacts with the sample as a point charge with an induced dipole moment obtained by the electric field of the substrate. By analyzing electrostatic forces and compare them with the results in the Okabayashi et al. report, the AFM images in the report could be reproduced. / <p>Rättande lärare: Cecilia Holmqvist</p>
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:lnu-75756 |
| Date | January 2018 |
| Creators | Wadensjö, Alexandra |
| Publisher | Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för fysik och elektroteknik (IFE) |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Student thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
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