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Susumu Teruyama

Motoichi Ohtsu

Yoshihito Narita

Osamu Saito

Tsutomu Inoue

Shinichiro Watanabe

Shinya Saito

Shuji Mononobe

Tatsuya Miyajima

Toshiharu Saiki

Hideho Hisada

Koji Akutsu

A probe opening forming apparatus comprising: light detecting means for detecting a quantity of a light transmitted from a tip portion of the probe through a light of the source which is on contact with the tip portion of the probe; storage means for previously storing information about relation of the quantity of the light transmitted from the tip portion of the probe and the size of the opening; calculating means for obtaining the value of the light quantity for obtaining an opening having a desirable size based on the information stored in the storage means and pressing control means for controlling the press of the tip portion of the probe against the light detecting means through the pressing means such that a light quantity detected by the light detecting means is equal to the light quantity calculated from the calculating means

Probe opening forming apparatus and near-field optical microscope using the same

In a probe microscope for causing a sample and a tip portion of a probe on the sample side to approach each other, detecting an interaction between the sample and the sample-side probe tip portion , and obtaining surface information of the sample from the interaction, the probe being a flexible needle-like probe; the probe microscope comprises vibrating means capable of rotating the probe while flexing the sample-side tip portion thereof so as to draw a circle having a size corresponding to an increase and decrease in the interaction between the sample surface and the tip portion , and detecting means for detecting the increase and decrease in the size of the circle drawn by the sample-side probe tip portion due to the interaction and obtaining, from the increase and decrease in the size of the circle, information about the distance between the sample and the sample-side probe tip portion

Rotating probe microscope

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Tokyo, Japan

Susumu Teruyama