 AFM tip convolution (source code)

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= AFM tip convolution
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= Tip convolution
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Geometrical broadening of a surface feature by the finite shape of an <AFM probe>. The same geometry can narrow the accessible part of a surface depression. The measured height envelope is more precisely a morphological dilation than an ordinary linear convolution. Repeated identical particle outlines can be tip images; inaccessible sidewalls prevent a unique inverse reconstruction.

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