Development of a method for updating the probe of a scanning probe microscope in open space conditions

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A new method of updating the needle of a scanning probe microscope by sputtering different materials on it has been developed, tested and optimised. Experiments on sputtering different metals on the needle were performed, scans were taken with this needle in a scanning tunnelling microscope before and after sputtering metals on it, and the change in resolving power after sputtering metals as the main parameter of the microscope was evaluated. The new method of probe updating was developed for the world’s first space scanning tunnelling microscope, but it is also applicable for probe microscopes of other types, for example, for atomic force microscopes, as well as for various applications of probe microscopes in general, including those operating in vacuum chambers for various purposes.

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B. A. Loginov

National Research University of Electronic Technology MIET; Sirius Federal Territory

Author for correspondence.
Email: b-loginov@mail.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0001-5081-1424

Head of Laboratory

Russian Federation, Zelenograd; Educational Centre urban village Sirius

Y. V. Khripunov

Sirius Federal Territory; Orel State University named after I.S. Turgenev

Email: b-loginov@mail.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0003-2250-0420

Cand. of Sci. (Physics and Mathematics), Director

Russian Federation, Educational Centre urban village Sirius; Orel

M. A. Shcherbina

Sirius Federal Territory; Orel State University named after I.S. Turgenev

Email: b-loginov@mail.ru
ORCID iD: 0009-0001-8873-4986

Student

Russian Federation, Educational Centre urban village Sirius; Orel

A. A. Smirnov

Sirius Federal Territory

Email: b-loginov@mail.ru
ORCID iD: 0009-0007-6716-4535

Student

Russian Federation, Educational Centre urban village Sirius

A. K. McCoy

Sirius Federal Territory

Email: b-loginov@mail.ru
ORCID iD: 0009-0003-6800-3443

Student

Russian Federation, Educational Centre urban village Sirius

N. S. Nekhaenko

Sirius Federal Territory

Email: b-loginov@mail.ru
ORCID iD: 0009-0009-4193-0013

Student

Russian Federation, Educational Centre urban village Sirius

P. A. Granatkin

Sirius Federal Territory

Email: b-loginov@mail.ru
ORCID iD: 0009-0003-7822-4100

Student

Russian Federation, Educational Centre urban village Sirius

H. Y. Hamdy

Sirius Federal Territory

Email: b-loginov@mail.ru
ORCID iD: 0009-0008-0943-1057

Student

Russian Federation, Educational Centre urban village Sirius

N. R. Kalnazarova

Sirius Federal Territory

Email: b-loginov@mail.ru
ORCID iD: 0009-0007-2598-6514

Student

Russian Federation, Educational Centre urban village Sirius

E. O. Petryaev

Sirius Federal Territory

Email: b-loginov@mail.ru
ORCID iD: 0009-0003-4816-6886

Student

Russian Federation, Educational Centre urban village Sirius

C. K. Tanasa

Sirius Federal Territory

Email: b-loginov@mail.ru
ORCID iD: 0009-0006-4111-3441

Student

Russian Federation, Educational Centre urban village Sirius

X. A. Ahrorova

Sirius Federal Territory

Email: b-loginov@mail.ru
ORCID iD: 0009-0009-9786-801X

Student

Russian Federation, Educational Centre urban village Sirius

D. R. Ainulova

Sirius Federal Territory

Email: b-loginov@mail.ru
ORCID iD: 0009-0008-8242-9076

Student

Russian Federation, Educational Centre urban village Sirius

A. R. Izmailova

Sirius Federal Territory

Email: b-loginov@mail.ru
ORCID iD: 0009-0006-1207-8026

Student

Russian Federation, Educational Centre urban village Sirius

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2. Fig.1. Schemes and photos of sputtering processes on the "MAG-5 vacuum-plasma unit": a – photo of the sputtering process; b – scheme of the sputtering process, where: 1 – heated tantalum boat with a piece of atomised metal, 2 – flying metal atoms, 3 – probe holder with a probe facing the atomised metal, 4 – pumping and atmospheric inlet; c – prepared metal pieces for sputtering; d – team of the WYF-2024 World Youth Festival, from left to right: Anna Catherine McCoy (USA), Egor Petryaev (Russia, Mordovia), Hilola Akhronova (Tajikistan), Nazokat Kalnazarova (Uzbekistan), Chriz Kylian Tanasa (Gabon), Nikita Nekhaenko (Russia, Moscow), Pavel Granatkin (Russia, Ivanovo Oblast), Diana Ainulova (Russia, Moscow), Alexander Smirnov (Russia, St. Petersburg), Hamdy Yasser (Egypt); e – Team of the GGC-2024 Global Grand Challenges Programme, from left to right: Maxim Scherbina (Russia, Oryol), assistant of both teams, Alisa Izmailova (Uzbekistan, Tashkent), Varvara Babarykina (Russia, Smolensk), Maxim Pluzhnik (Russia, Stavropol Krai), Anna Mizgailo (Belarus, Minsk), Meri Mamikonyan (Armenia, not pictured, see fig.4b)

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3. Fig.2. Frames of 2 × 2 μm from the SMM-2000 scanning probe microscope obtained by the WYFY-2024 team in scanning tunnel mode: metal with "–" sign means that the frame was obtained on a new probe; metal with "+" sign means that the frame was obtained on the same probe for this metal, but with sputtering of this metal

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4. Fig.3. Frames of 2 × 2 µm from the SMM-2000 scanning probe microscope obtained by the GGC-2024 Global Grand Challenges team in scanning tunnelling mode for the metals listed in Table 2: Me-frame obtained on a new probe; Pt – the tip of the platinum needle of the scanning tunnelling microscope after jamming by light contact with glass; Me+ – frame obtained on the same probe, but after its jamming and metal sputtering

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5. Fig.4. Photos of the teams’ work process on SMM-2000 scanning probe microscopes: d – fifth from left to right – Boris Albertovich Loginov, Head of both teams; e – first from right to left – Yuri Vadimovich Khripunov, methodologist of the "Nanotechnologies" direction of the "Grand Challenges" programme of the Sirius Educational Centre

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Copyright (c) 2024 Loginov B.A., Khripunov Y.V., Shcherbina M.A., Smirnov A.A., McCoy A.K., Nekhaenko N.S., Granatkin P.A., Hamdy H.Y., Kalnazarova N.R., Petryaev E.O., Tanasa C.K., Ahrorova X.A., Ainulova D.R., Izmailova A.R.

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