Abstract

. Abstract: This paper presents a sensing system to measure the deflection of a microcantilever in an atomic force microscope. In general, the optical lever method and interferometry are used for the sensing system; however, their size and cost leaves considerable room for improvement. Therefore, we used an optical pickup head whose operating principle is based on the astigmatism of the commercial optical disk drives. The developed sensing system was applied to a laboratory atomic force microscope, and satisfactory results were obtained.

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