Design Blueprint: A Low-Temperature Scanning Probe Stage: Piezo Range Contraction, Thermal Load and Positioning Resolution at Four Kelvin
Year: 2026
Type: preprint
Abstract: Design blueprint derived from the source paper (DOI 10.5281/zenodo.24147822): This paper presents a computed design for a scanning probe stage intended for cryogenic scanning probe microscopy, with its performance, resource budgets and margins derived from stated assumptions rather than asserted. The headline results are: fine scan range available at 4 K of 2.16 micrometres; nominal positioning resolution from the drive electronics of 0.033 nm; heat conducted to the stage a Status: DESIGN BLUEPRINT — SIMULATED, NOT MEASURED — NOT BUILT. All numbers are simulated values from the source paper's computation, deposited with this blueprint as compute.py and results.json. AI-use disclosure: Dave, an AI research system, assisted with the computation and drafting under the author's direction; author of record William Alexander Aldred.
Author: Aldred, William Alexander
Language: English
Subfield: Control and Systems Engineering
Field: Engineering
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7225803058