Use of Capacitance To Measure Surface Forces. 2. Application to the

A number of techniques was used to study contact mechanics in the past.7-12. The surface forces apparatus (SFA) was developed following the pioneering...
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Langmuir 1997, 13, 5957-5961

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Use of Capacitance To Measure Surface Forces. 2. Application to the Study of Contact Mechanics Peter Frantz,† Alexander Artsyukhovich, Robert W. Carpick,‡ and Miquel Salmeron* Materials Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720 Received March 10, 1997. In Final Form: August 25, 1997X We performed capacitance measurements between silver layers on the back side of thin (