Touch-screen based scanning probe microscopy (SPM)

摘要

The invention relates to a scanning probe microscopy (SPM) system (1) comprising a sample stage (2) and one or more sample motion stages (4) for actuating the sample stage (2), a SPM probe (5) and one or more probe motion stages (6) for actuating the SPM probe (5) and for performing an SPM scan of a sample (3) arranged on the sample stage (2), and a system controller (11). The system controller (11) includes: an image acquisition module (11.1) configured to collect from an image acquisition device (8) one or more images of the sample (3) carried by the sample stage (2), a touch-screen control module (11.2) configured to display the one or more images of the sample (2) together with one or more tools (14, 15, ...) on a touch-screen (12) and to generate one or more control actions depending on the detection of a gesture of a user touching the touch-screen (12), and a control module (11.3) configured to receive one or more control actions generated by the touch-screen control module (11.2) and to control the SPM system (1) according to the received control actions.