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Probing the Morphology and Evolving Dynamics of 3D Printed Nanostructures Using High-Speed Atomic Force Microscopy

Georg Fantner, Maja Dukic Pjanic, Chen Yang, Jie Zhao

Focused electron beam induced deposition (FEBID) has been demonstrated as a promising solution for synthesizing truly three-dimensional (3D) nanostructures. However, the lack of morphological feedback during growth complicates further development toward hi ...

Amer Chemical Soc2017

Components for high-speed atomic force microscopy optimized for low phase-lag

Santiago Harald Andany, Georg Fantner, Jonathan David Adams, Adrian Pascal Nievergelt, Mélanie Thérèse Marie Hannebelle

IEEE2017

Chronic inflammation imposes aberrant cell fate in regenerating epithelia through mechanotransduction

Matthias Lütolf, Yann Barrandon, Freddy Radtke, Craig Nowell, Sylke Höhnel, Georg Fantner, Pascal Damian Odermatt, Luca Azzolin

Chronic inflammation is associated with a variety of pathological conditions in epithelial tissues, including cancer, metaplasia and aberrant wound healing. In relation to this, a significant body of evidence suggests that aberration of epithelial stem and ...

Nature Publishing Group2016

Design of a high-bandwidth tripod scanner for high speed atomic force microscopy

Georg Fantner, Maja Dukic Pjanic, Nahid Hosseini, Chen Yang, Jie Zhao

Tip-scanning high-speed atomic force microscopes (HS-AFMs) have several advantages over their sample-scanning counterparts. Firstly, they can be used on samples of almost arbitrary size since the high imaging bandwidth of the system is immune to the added ...

2016

A monolithic MEMS position sensor for closed-loop high-speed atomic force microscopy

Georg Fantner, Jonathan David Adams, Nahid Hosseini, Adrian Pascal Nievergelt

The accuracy and repeatability of atomic force microscopy (AFM) imaging significantly depend on the accuracy of the piezoactuator. However, nonlinear properties of piezoactuators can distort the image, necessitating sensor-based closed-loop actuators to ac ...

2016

Direct-write nanoscale printing of nanogranular tunnelling strain sensors for sub-micrometre cantilevers

Georg Fantner, Jonathan David Adams, Maja Dukic Pjanic

The sensitivity and detection speed of cantilever-based mechanical sensors increases drastically through size reduction. The need for such increased performance for high-speed nanocharacterization and bio-sensing, drives their sub-micrometre miniaturizatio ...

Nature Research2016

Multilayer mems cantilevers

Georg Fantner, Jonathan David Adams, Nahid Hosseini

The present invention relates to a cantilever or membrane comprising a body and an elongated beam attached to the body. The elongated beam includes a first layer comprising a first material, a second layer comprising a second material having an elastic mod ...

2016

Harnessing the damping properties of materials for high-speed atomic force microscopy

Jürgen Brugger, Jonas Grossenbacher, Georg Fantner, Blake William Erickson, Jonathan David Adams, Adrian Pascal Nievergelt

The success of high-speed atomic force microscopy in imaging molecular motors1, enzymes2 and microbes3 in liquid environments suggests that the technique could be of significant value in a variety of areas of nanotechnology. However, the majority of atomic ...

Nature Publishing Group2016

Method and apparatus of using a scanning probe microscope

Georg Fantner, Jonathan David Adams, Adrian Pascal Nievergelt

a scanning probe microscope for high-speed imaging and/or nanomechanical mapping. The microscope comprises a scanning probe comprising a cantilever with a tip at the distal end; and means for modulating a tip-sample distance separating the tip from an inte ...

2016

Piezoresistive AFM cantilevers surpassing standard optical beam deflection in low noise topography imaging

Georg Fantner, Jonathan David Adams, Maja Dukic Pjanic

Optical beam deflection (OBD) is the most prevalent method for measuring cantilever deflections in atomic force microscopy (AFM), mainly due to its excellent noise performance. In contrast, piezoresistive strain-sensing techniques provide benefits over OBD ...

Nature Publishing Group2015

Monolithic fabrication of silicon nanowires bridging thick silicon structures

Yusuf Leblebici, Oliver Peric, Davide Sacchetto, Zuhal Tasdemir, Georg Fantner

2015

Growth and dissolution of calcite in the presence of adsorbed stearic acid

Francesco Stellacci, Georg Fantner, Kislon Voitchovsky, Blake William Erickson, Maria Ricci, Juan José Segura Sugranes

The interaction of organic molecules with the surface of calcite plays a central role in many geochemical, petrochemical and industrial processes and in biomineralization. Adsorbed organics, typically fatty acids, can interfere with the evolution of calcit ...

American Chemical Society2015

High-Resolution Correlative Microscopy: Bridging the Gap between Single Molecule Localization Microscopy and Atomic Force Microscopy

Aleksandra Radenovic, Lely Feletti, Georg Fantner, Pascal Damian Odermatt, Arun Shivanandan, Hendrik Georges Deschout, Adrian Pascal Nievergelt, Radek Jankele

Nanoscale characterization of living samples has become essential for modern biology. Atomic force microscopy (AFM) creates topological images of fragile biological structures from biomolecules to living cells in aqueous environments. However, correlating ...

American Chemical Society (ACS)2015

Studying biological membranes with extended range high-speed atomic force microscopy

Georg Fantner, Blake William Erickson, Jonathan David Adams, Nahid Hosseini, Adrian Pascal Nievergelt

High-speed atomic force microscopy has proven to be a valuable tool for the study of biomolecular systems at the nanoscale. Expanding its application to larger biological specimens such as membranes or cells has, however, proven difficult, often requiring ...

Nature Publishing Group2015

A Compressible Scaffold for Minimally Invasive Delivery of Large Intact Neuronal Networks

Philippe Renaud, Thomas Michael Braschler, Patrick Fraering, Oliver Peric, Georg Fantner, Sébastien Mosser, Amélie Barbara Hildegarde Béduer, Sidi Ahmed Bencherif

Millimeter to centimeter-sized injectable neural scaffolds based on macroporous cryogels are presented. The polymer-scaffolds are made from alginate and carboxymethyl-cellulose by a novel simple one-pot cryosynthesis. They allow surgical sterility by means ...

Wiley-VCH Verlag2015

High-frequency multimodal atomic force microscopy

Georg Fantner, Jonathan David Adams, Pascal Damian Odermatt, Adrian Pascal Nievergelt

Multifrequency atomic force microscopy imaging has been recently demonstrated as a powerful technique for quickly obtaining information about the mechanical properties of a sample. Combining this development with recent gains in imaging speed through small ...

Beilstein-Institut2014

Nanoscale Calorimetry Reveals Higher Stability of Cholesterol Induced Nanoscale Domains in Lipid Bilayers

Georg Fantner, Blake William Erickson

Cambridge, Cambridge University Press2014

High-speed imaging upgrade for a standard sample scanning atomic force microscope using small cantilevers

Georg Fantner, Blake William Erickson, Jonathan David Adams, Maja Dukic Pjanic, Adrian Pascal Nievergelt

We present an atomic force microscope (AFM) head for optical beam deflection on small cantilevers. Our AFM head is designed to be small in size, easily integrated into a commercial AFM system, and has a modular architecture facilitating exchange of the opt ...

2014

Top-Down Fabrication of Silicon Nanowires in Ultra-deep Trenches

Yusuf Leblebici, Oliver Peric, Davide Sacchetto, Zuhal Tasdemir, Georg Fantner

One-Dimensional (1D) nanostructures have gained a considerable attention in the field of semiconductor technology for the past several decades. With the help of rapid development in the process technology, it becomes possible to scale these nanostructures ...

2014

Large-scale analysis of high-speed atomic force microscopy data sets using adaptive image processing

Séverine Coquoz, Georg Fantner, Blake William Erickson, Jonathan David Adams

Modern high-speed atomic force microscopes generate significant quantities of data in a short amount of time. Each image in the sequence has to be processed quickly and accurately in order to obtain a true representation of the sample and its changes over ...

Beilstein-Institut2012

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