Patent ID: 8381311

Claim:
A method for examining a test sample using a scanning probe microscope in which: a first and a second measurement using a scanning probe microscope are carried out on the test sample using a measuring probe system in which a measuring probe and another measuring probe are formed on a common measuring probe receptacle, during the first measurement, in relation to the test sample, the measuring probe is held in a first measurement position and the other measuring probe is held in another non-measurement position, and the test sample is examined with the measuring probe using a scanning probe microscope, after the first measurement, by displacing in relation to the test sample, the measuring probe is displaced from the measurement position into a non-measurement position and the other measuring probe from the other non-measurement position into another measurement position, and during the second measurement, in relation to the test sample, the measuring probe is held in the non-measurement position and the other measuring probe is held in the other measurement position, and the test sample is examined with the other measuring probe using a scanning probe microscope, wherein the displacement in relation to the test sample is performed at least partly by means of a joint movement of the measuring probe and the other measuring probe which comprises a relative movement between the measuring probe receptacle and the test sample.