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Analysis of heat transfer in the water meniscus at the tip-sample contact in scanning thermal microscopy

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Quantitative measurements of local nanometer-scale thermal measurements are difficult to achieve because heat flux may be transferred from the heated sensor to the cold sample through various elusive mixed thermal channels. This paper addresses one of these channels, the water meniscus at the nano-contact between a heated atomic force microscopy probe and a hydrophilic sample. This heat transfer mechanism is found to depend strongly on the probe temperature. The analysis of the pull-off forces as a function of temperature indicates that the water film almost vanishes above a probe mean temperature between 120 and 150 ºC. In particular, a methodology that allows for correlating the thermal conductance of the water meniscus to the capillary forces is applied. In the case of the standard scanning thermal microscopy Wollaston probe, values of this thermal conductance show that the water meniscus mechanism is not dominant in the thermal interaction between the probe and the sample, regardless of probe temperature.
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hal-01269805 , version 1 (05-02-2016)

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Ali Assy, Stéphane Lefèvre, Pierre-Olivier Chapuis, Séverine Gomès. Analysis of heat transfer in the water meniscus at the tip-sample contact in scanning thermal microscopy. Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, 2014, 47, pp.442001 ⟨10.1088/0022-3727/47/44/442001⟩. ⟨hal-01269805⟩
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