Periodic solutions of a tapping mode cantilever in an Atomic Force Microscope with harmonic excitation (Q2137205)

The authors investigate a nonlinear system associated with a tapping mode cantilever Atomic Force Microscope with Lennard-Jones potential and an external harmonic excitation. Using the technique of lower and upper solutions in reverse order they establish criteria for existence and multiplicity of periodic solutions. The proposed results are supported by numerical simulations.