SCANNING PROBE MICROSCOPE

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To enable fine and high-speed movement of a probe for enabling capture of roaming atoms or molecules. SOLUTION: This scanning probe microscope is provided with provisions for allowing a probe 1 and a sample 2 to approach each other and scanning the probe 1, while applying feedback so as to make the current flowing across between both of them or the action acting between both of them constant, a means for moving the probe 1 in a shape close to an atomic size at a high speed at which feedback will not follow.