Cantilever Probe (IMAGE)

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Cantilever Probe

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A heated atomic force microscope cantilever probe touches a surface to be analyzed with vapor from surface material that is thermally desorbed. The heat is drawn into the ion source of the mass spectrometer, ionized and then detected and analyzed by a mass spectrometer.

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