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The operation of a scanning tunneling microscope is based on a feedback using proportional and integral controller. By disturbing a z axis piezo artificially, the optimum feedback parameters for the critically damped response can be readily tuned thus dispensing with the need for exact analytical solutions.
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Jeon et al. (1991) studied this question.
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