Due to its rapid popularity increase within last three decades, with particular focus on submicrometer quantitative surface’s properties imaging, atomic force microscopy (AFM) is still a subject of development and research in terms of both better understanding and efficient utilization of various measurement techniques. Quantitative and comparable measurements at nanoscale are a significant issue, as both: science and industry desire reliable results, allowing to perform repetitive experiments at any time and location. Therefore a numerous analysis and research projects were carried out to provide metrological approach for those techniques in terms of providing the traceability and the uncertainty estimation. In this paper an overview of various methods and approaches towards quantitative determination of the normal spring constant of the AFM probes is presented.
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Atomic Force Microscopy, Scanning Probe, Spring Constant, Calibration, Normal Force Measurement, Force Spectroscopy
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