Revealing Sub-Surface Vibrational Modes by Atom-Resolved Damping Force Spectroscopy

Details Revealing Sub-Surface Vibrational Modes by Atom-Resolved Damping Force Spectroscopy Revealing Sub-Surface Vibrational Modes by Atom-Resolved Damping Force Spectroscopy

2009-04-17

arxiv.org/abs/0904.2666v1

Physical Review Letters 102, 195503 (2009)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

4 pages, 3 figures, to be published in Phys. Rev. Lett.

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.102.195503

We propose to use the damping signal of an oscillating cantilever in dynamic atomic force microscopy as a noninvasive tool to study the vibrational structure of the substrate. We present atomically resolved maps of damping in carbon nanotube peapods, capable of identifying the location and packing of enclosed Dy@C82 molecules as well as local excitations of vibrational modes inside nanotubes of different diameter. We elucidate the physical origin of damping in a microscopic model and provide quantitative interpretation of the observations by calculating the vibrational spectrum and damping of Dy@C82 inside nanotubes with different diameters using ab initio total energy and molecular dynamics calculations.

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