Abstract: This invention has applications as a scanning probe microscope/nanomanipulator with consumer gaming applications. An integrated compound lever cantilever which can function simultaneously as both a sample substrate actuator and probe tip scanner actuator for modulation of one or more probe tip. In one embodiment a piezoelectric multimorph MEMS structure is fabricated which serves as a Scanning Probe Microscope cantilever probe tip scanner and allows for the substrate to be moved in more than 1 Degree of freedom with subnanometer resolution. Nanomanipulation means such as nanotweezer, nanopore and nanomachine embodiments are possible uses for the device in addition to data storage. Parallel array operation of many sets of cantilevers is a preferred embodiment which can be used as a nanoscale manipulation and fabrication means.

Abstract: The present invention is directed toward the fabrication and operation of a coherent electron quantum interferometer for scanning probe microscopy. The device may also be operated in a mode where single electrons are used in the sample probe. The device may operate in modes where scanning probe behavior, Kondo effect and/or Aharanov-Bohm interferometer behavior can be observed. The use of nucleic acid molecules attached to the probe structures allows for interrogation of RNA and DNA molecules absorbed on the sample substrate and potentially the sequencing of genetic material using coherent spectroscopic electron imaging in conjunction with prior art probe methods. An embodiment with genetic algorithm generated molecular arrays and circuit prototyping areas is provided in a preferred embodiment for an evolvable hardware embodiment of a coherent electron interferometer nanomanipulator platform.