Research Article

Design of Harmonic AFM Probe Subjected to van der Waals Force in the Modified Couple Stress Theory

Table 3

Comparison of the dimensionless frequencies determined by the proposed probe and similarity formula (46) at the tip-sample distance D0 = 5 nm (, ξ1 = 0.3, ξ2 = 0.6, 1.096436, , , , , D0 = 5 nm, and ).

δ
Proposed methodEquation (42)

0.02.88272.88272.88270.0000.000
0.13.02343.02340.0000.000
0.23.15783.15780.0000.000
0.33.28673.28670.0000.000
0.43.41083.41080.0000.000
0.53.53053.53050.0000.000
0.63.64633.64630.0000.000
0.73.75853.75850.0000.000
0.83.86753.86750.0000.000
0.93.97353.97350.0000.000
1.04.07674.07670.0000.000