We describe the on-surface preparation of tips suitable to perform force microscopy and force spectroscopy experiments with atomic resolution and spin sensitivity by monitoring length changes and changes of the dissipated energy. On the antiferromagnetic Fe monolayer on W(001), we find tip apices that are capable of atomic resolution with or without spin sensitivity and with or without atomic scale dissipation. Tips that exhibit adhesion hysteresis are structurally unstable and reveal themselves by an atomic scale dissipation contrast. We emphasize that such tips should not be used to evaluate distance dependent spectroscopy data quantitatively.
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