- Title
- Tracking control of a nanopositioner using complementary sensors
- Creator
- Mahmood, Iskandar A.; Moheimani, S. O. Reza; Liu, Kexiu
- Relation
- IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology Vol. 8, Issue 1, p. 55-65
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TNANO.2008.2005183
- Publisher
- Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2009
- Description
- Piezoelectric tube actuators are widely used in atomic force and scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) for nanoscale positioning. There has been a consistent effort to increase the scan speed of these actuators using feedback control techniques. A feedback controller requires a measurement of the scanner's deflection, which is often provided by a capacitive sensor. Such measurements are corrupted by sensor noise, typically in the order of 20 pm/√Hz rms. Over a bandwidth of 10 kHz, this translates into an rms noise of 2 nm, clearly inadequate for applications that require subnanometer positioning accuracy, e.g., STM. In this paper, we illustrate how the strain voltage induced in a free electrode of the scanner can be used as an additional displacement signal. The noise level corresponding to the strain signal is about three orders of magnitude less than that of a capacitive sensor, making it an ideal choice for nanopositioning applications. However, it cannot be used for dc and low-frequency measurements. A two-sensor-based controller is designed to use the capacitive sensor signal at low frequencies, and the strain displacement signal at high frequencies. By limiting the capacitive sensor feedback loop bandwidth to less than 100 Hz, the rms value of the noise is reduced to well below 1 nm. For almost the same noise level, the two-sensor-based control structure achieves a closed-loop bandwidth of more than three times that of the single-sensor-based controller.
- Subject
- piezoelectric tube scanner; scanning probe microscopes (SPMs); two-sensor-based H∞ controller
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/41161
- Identifier
- uon:4681
- Identifier
- ISSN:1536-125x
- Rights
- Copyright © 2009 IEEE. Reprinted from IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology. This material is posted here with permission of the IEEE. Such permission of the IEEE does not in any way imply IEEE endorsement of any of the University of Newcastle's products or services. Internal or personal use of this material is permitted. However, permission to reprint/republish this material for advertising or promotional purposes or for creating new collective works for resale or redistribution must be obtained from the IEEE by writing to pubs-permissions@ieee.org. By choosing to view this document, you agree to all provisions of the copyright laws protecting it.
- Language
- eng
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