An external feedback control is inserted in a nonlinear continuum formulation of a noncontactAFM model. The aim of the feedback is to keep the system response to an operationally suitable one, thus allowing reliable measurement of the sample surface by avoiding possible unstable microcantilever sensor motions. The study of the weakly nonlinear system dynamics about the desired fixed point close to primary resonance is carried out via multiple-scale asymptotics, whose outcomes are validated via numerical simulations of the original system equations of motion. The latter include controllable periodic dynamics and additional periodic and distinct quasiperiodic solutions that appear beyond the asymptotic stability thresholds. The results highlight the effectiveness of the applied feedback control technique and also enable the derivation of a comprehensive system bifurcation structure highlighting the stability thresholds for robust controllable AFM dynamics.

Asymptotic analysis of a noncontact AFM microcantilever sensor with external feedback control / Settimi, V; Gottlieb, O; Rega, G. - In: NONLINEAR DYNAMICS. - ISSN 0924-090X. - 79:(2015), pp. 2675-2698. [10.1007/s11071-014-1840-0]

Asymptotic analysis of a noncontact AFM microcantilever sensor with external feedback control

Settimi V;
2015-01-01

Abstract

An external feedback control is inserted in a nonlinear continuum formulation of a noncontactAFM model. The aim of the feedback is to keep the system response to an operationally suitable one, thus allowing reliable measurement of the sample surface by avoiding possible unstable microcantilever sensor motions. The study of the weakly nonlinear system dynamics about the desired fixed point close to primary resonance is carried out via multiple-scale asymptotics, whose outcomes are validated via numerical simulations of the original system equations of motion. The latter include controllable periodic dynamics and additional periodic and distinct quasiperiodic solutions that appear beyond the asymptotic stability thresholds. The results highlight the effectiveness of the applied feedback control technique and also enable the derivation of a comprehensive system bifurcation structure highlighting the stability thresholds for robust controllable AFM dynamics.
2015
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