@inproceedings{34544925cb3e44c08a67f613b13469c0,
title = "Cantilever dynamics and energy localization during atomic force microscope infrared spectroscopy",
abstract = "We report rapid nanometer-scale chemical identification of polymer films using atomic force microscope infrared spectroscopy (AFM-IR). AFM-IR enables chemical characterization and identification in an AFM, but requires a relatively long acquisition time for high resolution mapping due to its low signal to noise ratio (SNR). In AFM-IR, infrared laser light incident upon a sample results in photothermal expansion of the sample, which is measured by an AFM tip in contact with the sample. The resulting cantilever vibrations vary in both time and frequency. We analyze the cantilever dynamic response during AFM-IR using a wavelet transform technique, which reveals how the energy is localized in the cantilever response. Based on this analysis, we tailor a time-frequency-domain filter to identify the region of highest vibrational energy. This approach can increase the SNR of the AFM-IR signal, such that the throughput is increased by 32X compared to state of the art. We show how this SNR improvement can improve AFM-IR imaging speed and chemical identification of nanometer-scale domains in polymer films.",
keywords = "Atomic force microscope infrared spectroscopy, cantilever dynamics, wavelet transform",
author = "H. Cho and Felts, {J. R.} and Yu, {M. F.} and Bergman, {L. A.} and Vakakis, {A. F.} and King, {W. P.}",
year = "2013",
doi = "10.1109/Transducers.2013.6626915",
language = "English (US)",
isbn = "9781467359818",
series = "2013 Transducers and Eurosensors XXVII: The 17th International Conference on Solid-State Sensors, Actuators and Microsystems, TRANSDUCERS and EUROSENSORS 2013",
pages = "908--911",
booktitle = "2013 Transducers and Eurosensors XXVII",
note = "2013 17th International Conference on Solid-State Sensors, Actuators and Microsystems, TRANSDUCERS and EUROSENSORS 2013 ; Conference date: 16-06-2013 Through 20-06-2013",
}