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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 20, 2011
Filed:
Feb. 04, 2010
Masato Iyoki, Chiba, JP;
Yoshiteru Shikakura, Chiba, JP;
Masafumi Watanabe, Chiba, JP;
SII NanoTechnology Inc., Chiba, JP;
Abstract
In detecting a displacement of a cantilever () by a displacement detecting mechanism () and allowing a probe () and a sample () to approach each other by at least one of a coarse-movement mechanism () and a vertical direction fine-movement mechanism () at the same time, an excitation mechanism () excites the cantilever () with a first excitation condition and the probe () and the sample () are allowed to approach each other with a first stop condition, and then the cantilever () is excited with a second excitation condition different from the first excitation condition, a second stop condition is set, and the probe () and the sample () are allowed to approach each other by the at least one of the vertical direction fine-movement mechanism () and the coarse-movement mechanism () until the second stop condition is satisfied.