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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 03, 1998
Filed:
Sep. 29, 1995
Applicant:
Inventors:
Arun Majumdar, Goleta, CA (US);
Mohammed Dahleh, Goleta, CA (US);
James Samir Ismail, Santa Barbara, CA (US);
Assignee:
The Regents of the University of California, Oakland, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B26D / ; G01B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
73863 ; 73105 ; 83919 ;
Abstract
A modified Atomic Force Microscope (AFM), which can machine and image the surface of a sample with nanometer precision in all three orthogonal directions by varying the depth-of-cut of the sample. A multi-repetitive sensor system is provided as is a radially halved quartered electrode to substantially maintain parallelism or substantial parallelism.