Observation of Nanoscale Opto-Mechanical Molecular Damping; Origin of Spectroscopic Contrast in Photo Induced Force Microscopy

Mohammad A. Almajhadi, Syed Mohammad Ashab Uddin, H. Kumar Wickramasinghe

We experimentally investigated the contrast mechanism of infrared photoinduced force microscopy (PiFM) for recording vibrational resonances. Extensive experiments have demonstrated…