Introduction to Scanning Probe Microscopy

By Massimiliano Labardi and Paolo Biagioni

This book covers the wide range of methods, which have become standard tools in every biology, material science, surface science, and optics laboratory: those that measure tip-sample interactions with forces and those that measure tip-sample interactions with currents. It emphasizes the fundamentals that may be applied to basic through advanced applications, including such topics as van der Waals forces between macroscopic objects, strain-stress analysis, continuum deformation theory, friction theory at the microscopic level, control theory, and an introduction to surface states and surface reconstruction.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1466588012
• ISBN13: 9781466588011
• Release Date: January 2026
• Publisher: CRC Press
• Length: 384 Pages