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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 25, 2011
Filed:
Apr. 14, 2009
Applicant:
Victor B. Kley, Berkeley, CA (US);
Inventor:
Victor B. Kley, Berkeley, CA (US);
Assignee:
General Nanotechnology LLC, Berkeley, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01Q 70/14 (2010.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
An instrument includes a probe having a porous tip, a tip positioning apparatus to position the tip with respect to a sample material, a probe positioning apparatus to position the probe and sample material with respect to each other, and a controller. The controller controls the probe positioning apparatus in positioning the probe over the sample and controls the tip positioning apparatus in lowering the tip into the sample material to produce an interaction between the porous tip and the sample material.