In this talk, I will describe a breakthrough solution to the longstanding ‘nanospectroscopy imaging’ problem, a problem defined by the difficulty of optically probing local material properties in a widely-applicable fashion.  Currently, a large number of nano-optical approaches attempt to address this, but always at the expense of sensitivity, bandwidth, resolution, and/or sample types.

A New Kind of Active Site in Heterogeneous Catalysis on Au Nanoparticles