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Nanoscale friction

Distorted by the tip

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Peaks of energy dissipation arising from distortions of a charge density wave have been observed by oscillating the tip of an atomic force microscope a few nanometres above a surface of a layered dichalchogenide.

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Figure 1: Non-contact friction between a NbSe2 surface and an atomic force microscope tip oscillating as a pendulum above the surface1.

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  1. Rubén Pérez is at the Department of Theoretical Physics of Condensed Matter and the Condensed Matter Physics Centre (IFIMAC), Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, E-28049 Madrid, Spain,

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