Batch fabricated dual cantilever resistive probe for scanning thermal microscopy

Zhang, Y.; Dobson, Phillip S.; Weaver, Jonathan

doi:10.1016/j.mee.2011.02.040

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“…Since 1993, various thermal methods based on the use of different thermosensitive sensors or phenomena have been developed. They can be classified according to the temperature‐dependent mechanism that is used: thermovoltage , change in electrical resistance , fluorescence or thermal expansion .…”

Section: Instrumentation and Sthm Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Scanning thermal microscopy: A review

Gomès

Assy

Chapuis

2015

Phys. Status Solidi A

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Fundamental research and continued miniaturization of materials, components and systems have raised the need for the development of thermal-investigation methods enabling ultra-local measurements of surface temperature and thermophysical properties in many areas of science and applicative fields. Scanning thermal microscopy (SThM) is a promising technique for nanometer-scale thermal measurements, imaging, and study of thermal transport phenomena. This review focuses on fundamentals and applications of SThM methods. It inventories the main scanning probe microscopy-based techniques developed for thermal imaging with nanoscale spatial resolution. It describes the approaches currently used to calibrate the SThM probes in thermometry and for thermal conductivity measurement. In many cases, the link between the nominal measured signal and the investigated parameter is not straightforward due to the complexity of the micro/nanoscale interaction between the probe and the sample. Special attention is given to this interaction that conditions the tip-sample interface temperature. Examples of applications of SThM are presented, which include the characterization of operating devices, the measurements of the effective thermal conductivity of nanomaterials and local phase transition temperatures. Finally, future challenges and opportunities for SThM are discussed.

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Section: Instrumentation and Sthm Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Scanning thermal microscopy: A review

Gomès

Assy

Chapuis

2015

Phys. Status Solidi A

225

218

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“…A large number of SThM probes have been developed, either as individually crafted cantilevers and sensors, 188,[192][193][194][195][196] or as batch fabricated thermocouples. 189,[197][198][199] Cretin et al…”

Section: Scanning Thermal Microscopymentioning

confidence: 99%

Thermometry at the nanoscale

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Non-invasive precise thermometers working at the nanoscale with high spatial resolution, where the conventional methods are ineffective, have emerged over the last couple of years as a very active field of research. This has been strongly stimulated by the numerous challenging requests arising from nanotechnology and biomedicine. This critical review offers a general overview of recent examples of luminescent and non-luminescent thermometers working at nanometric scale. Luminescent thermometers encompass organic dyes, QDs and Ln 3+ ions as thermal probes, as well as more complex thermometric systems formed by polymer and organic-inorganic hybrid matrices encapsulating these emitting centres. Non-luminescent thermometers comprise of scanning thermal microscopy, nanolithography thermometry, carbon nanotube thermometry and biomaterials thermometry. Emphasis has been put on ratiometric examples reporting spatial resolution lower than 1 micron, as, for instance, intracellular thermometers based on organic dyes, thermoresponsive polymers, mesoporous silica NPs, QDs, and Ln 3+ -based up-converting NPs and b-diketonate complexes. Finally, we discuss the challenges and opportunities in the development for highly sensitive ratiometric thermometers operating at the physiological temperature range with submicron spatial resolution.

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“…The many papers on applications of SThM published since 1995 have been accompanied by works on new probe types (Luo, Shi, Varesi, & Majumdar, 1997;Mills, Zhou, Midha, Donaldson, & Weaver, 1998;Janus et al, 2010;Zhang, Dobson, & Weaver, 2011;Tovee, Pumarol, Zeze, Kjoller, & Kolosov, 2012;Janus et al, 2014;Hofer et al, 2015), calibration methods (Lefèvre, Saulnier, Fuentes, & Volz, 2004;Dobson, Mills, & Weaver, 2005;Wielgoszewski, Babij, Szeloch, & Gotszalk, 2014), and attempts to improve the SThM technique itself (Oesterschulze & Stopka, 1996;Pollock & Hammiche, 2001;Kim et al, 2008;Wielgoszewski et al, 2011b;Juszczyk, Wojtol, & Bodzenta, 2013). To date, the greatest impact on the development of AFM-based thermal analysis comes from the following elements: • Development of microthermal analysis (μTA) (Pollock & Hammiche, 2001) and the closely related development of doped-silicon probes (discussed in the section entitled "Thermoresistive SThM Probes," later in this chapter), which enabled localized calometric measurements.…”

Section: Sthm Since 1995mentioning

confidence: 99%