We present the design and describe the operation of a scanning probe microscope which simultaneously provides the attractive mode force and near‐field optical images of objects. In this technique, the force signal is used to track the topography, thus allowing the optical signal primarily to show variations in transmissivity. A number of results are presented on the application of the technique to imaging different samples.
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