Nothing like a quality sample preparation (thanks Natalia!) and an awesome AFM to get great soft-sample high-speed images (thanks Shuiqing & Adam!). This new video shows height and phase of freshly prepared Celgard; the images are at ~20um/s or 10Hz scan rate for 1um images.
In the video, we also tried to showcase a lot of the ease-of-use features that allow us to get these kind of results so quickly (ie not only accomplishing this at high tip velocity, but completing the entire arc of the experiment so fast – from setup to publishable data.) The key things to note are the Dimension FastScan’s intuitive user interface along with the MIRO image overlay capability. In the MIRO window on the right the 5um 128x128 survey scan was taken in ~1min. The high resolution overlay images are all 512x512.