Design and calibration of a parallel-moving displacement generator for nano-metrology
- 1 July 1998
- journal article
- Published by IOP Publishing in Measurement Science and Technology
- Vol. 9 (7), 1098-1104
- https://doi.org/10.1088/0957-0233/9/7/016
Abstract
A displacement generator is realized which enables the calibration of a wide variety of displacement-measuring probes, such as probes of roundness testers, roughness testers and stand-alone type scanning probe microscopes (SPMs), in the range of with a standard uncertainty below 1 nm. A digital piezo translator (DPT) drives a flat mirror which serves as the calibration platform. This mirror is locked to an elastic, hysteresis-free, monolithic parallel guide. Calibration of the platform displacement is carried out by various methods including tunable and stabilized lasers, Fabry-Pérot interferometry and laser interferometry. The system is calibrated with a standard uncertainty of about 0.1 nm using three independent methods. As an example the calibration of an SPM using generated steps is shown.Keywords
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