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REVIEW OF SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTS
Volume 84, Issue 2, Pages -Publisher
AMER INST PHYSICS
DOI: 10.1063/1.4793229
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- DARPA TBN
- National Science Foundation (NSF) Center for Nanoscale Chemical-Electrical-Mechanical Manufacturing Systems
- Department of Energy Office of Science Graduate Fellowship Program (DOE SCGF)
- ORISE-ORAU [DE-AC05-06OR23100]
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We measure the infrared spectra of polyethylene nanostructures of height 15 nm using atomic force microscope infrared spectroscopy (AFM-IR), which is about an order of magnitude improvement over state of the art. In AFM-IR, infrared light incident upon a sample induces photothermal expansion, which is measured by an AFM tip. The thermomechanical response of the sample-tip-cantilever system results in cantilever vibrations that vary in time and frequency. A time-frequency domain analysis of the cantilever vibration signal reveals how sample thermomechanical response and cantilever dynamics affect the AFM-IR signal. By appropriately filtering the cantilever vibration signal in both the time domain and the frequency domain, it is possible to measure infrared absorption spectra on polyethylene nanostructures as small as 15 nm. (C) 2013 American Institute of Physics. [http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4793229]
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