Aigouy Lionel, Lalouat Loïc, Mortier Michel, Löw Peter, Bergaud Christian
Laboratoire de Physique et d'Etude des Matériaux, UMR CNRS 8213, ESPCI, 10 rue Vauquelin, 75231 Paris Cedex 5, France.
Rev Sci Instrum. 2011 Mar;82(3):036106. doi: 10.1063/1.3567794.
We have developed a scanning thermal probe microscope that operates in liquid environments. The thermal sensor is a fluorescent particle glued at the end of a sharp tungsten tip. Since light emission is a strongly thermally sensitive effect, the measurement of the particle fluorescence variations allows the determination of the temperature. No electrical wiring of the probe is needed. As a demonstrative example, we have measured the temperature map of a Joule-heated microheater immersed in a water∕glycerol solution. Both topographical and thermal images are obtained with a good sensitivity.
我们开发了一种可在液体环境中运行的扫描热探针显微镜。热传感器是一个粘贴在尖锐钨尖末端的荧光粒子。由于发光是一种对热非常敏感的效应，通过测量粒子荧光变化可以确定温度。该探针无需电气布线。作为一个示例，我们测量了浸没在水/甘油溶液中的焦耳加热微加热器的温度分布图。同时以良好的灵敏度获得了形貌图像和热图像。
