The use of artificial neural networks in electrostatic force microscopy
Title (trans.)
On the use of artificial neural networks in electrostatic force microscopyEntity
UAM. Departamento de Ingeniería InformáticaPublisher
Springer Pub. Co.Date
2012-07-24Citation
10.1186/1556-276X-7-250
Nanoscale Research Letters 7 (2012): 250
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1931-7573 (print); 1556-276X (online)DOI
10.1186/1556-276X-7-250Funded by
This work was supported by TIN2010-19607 and BFU2009-08473. GMS acknowledges support from the Spanish Ramón y Cajal Program.Editor's Version
http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/1556-276X-7-250Subjects
Artificial neural networks; Electrostatic force microscopy; Thin films; InformáticaNote
The electronic version of this article is the complete one and can be found online at: http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/1556-276X-7-250Includes the electronic version of the poster presented at the 12th Trends in Nanotechnology International Conference (TNT2011), held in Tenerife (Spain)
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© 2012 Castellano-Hernandez et al.; licensee SpringerAbstract
The use of electrostatic force microscopy (EFM) to characterize and manipulate surfaces at the nanoscale usually faces the problem of dealing with systems where several parameters are not known. Artificial neural networks (ANNs) have demonstrated to be a very useful tool to tackle this type of problems. Here, we show that the use of ANNs allows us to quantitatively estimate magnitudes such as the dielectric constant of thin films. To improve thin film dielectric constant estimations in EFM, we first increase the accuracy of numerical simulations by replacing the standard minimization technique by a method based on ANN learning algorithms. Second, we use the improved numerical results to build a complete training set for a new ANN. The results obtained by the ANN suggest that accurate values for the thin film dielectric constant can only be estimated if the thin film thickness and sample dielectric constant are known.
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Google Scholar:Castellano-Hernández, Elena
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Serrano Jerez, Eduardo
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Varona Martínez, Pablo
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Gómez Moñivas, Sacha
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Rodríguez Ortiz, Francisco Borja
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