Abstract: The present invention realizes a probe for a scanning type microscope by which the quality of a nanotube probe needle can be improved by means of fastening and cutting the nanotube probe needle, furthermore by means of implanting ions of another element. For the object, a probe for a scanning type microscope produced by a focusing ion beam related to the present invention is characterized in that, in a probe for a scanning type microscope which captures substance information of the surface of a specimen by the tip end 14a of a nanotube probe needle 12 fastened to a cantilever 4, an organic gas G is decomposed by a focused ion beam I in a focused ion beam apparatus 2, and the nanotube 12 is bonded to the cantilever 4 with a deposit of the decomposed component thus produced.

Abstract: A nanotube length control method involving a nanotube and a discharge needle so that the nanotube with its base end portion fastened to a holder and its tip end portion caused to protrude is set so as for its tip end to face the tip end of the discharge needle. A voltage is applied across the nanotube and the discharge needle so that an electrical discharge is caused to occur between the tip end of the nanotube and the tip end of the discharge needle, thus cutting down the tip end of the nanotube by this discharge, and it is possible to control the length of the tip end portion of the nanotube.

Abstract: A probe for vertical scanning microscope in which the forward end of a nanotube, serving as a probe, abuts against the sample surface substantially perpendicularly thereto and detects the surface information of the sample with high sensitivity.

Abstract: The present invention realizes a conductive probe for a scanning type microscope, to which a voltage can be applied or a current can flow.

Abstract: To provide nanotweezers and a nanomanipulator which allow great miniaturization of the component and are capable of gripping various types of nano-substances such as insulators, semiconductors and conductors and of gripping nano-substances of various shapes.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a nanotube cartridge including the steps of: adhering numerous nanotubes to a surface of a holder, disposing a knife edge at an inclination to the surface of the holder so that the knife edge is raised with its tip end being in contact with the surface of the holder, and collecting the nanotubes to near the tip end of the knife edge by moving the knife edge in a direction opposite from the tip end with the tip end being kept in contact with the surface, thus allowing the nanotubes to be arranged on the tip end of the knife edge with the nanotubes protruding from the tip end. When adhering the nanotubes to the holder surface, nanotubes are merely put in a vessel, the holder is placed in the vessel, and then the vessel is vibrated.