| AVS 60th International Symposium and Exhibition | |
| Scanning Probe Microscopy Focus Topic | Thursday Sessions |
| Session SP+AS+BI+MI+NS+SS-ThM |
| Session: | Advances in Scanning Probe Imaging |
| Presenter: | S.W. Li, University of California, Irvine |
| Authors: | S.W. Li, University of California, Irvine A.X. Yu, University of California, Irvine G. Czap, University of California, Irvine W. Ho, University of California, Irvine |
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Historically, gold has been treasured for its beauty and permanence. In the quantum regime, gold nanoclusters gain even more reputation from their unique power as photocatalysts. To better understand the optical properties of nanoclusters, we investigated Scanning Tunneling Spectroscopy and tunneling electron induced light emission of single Au nanoclusters deposited on Al2O3 / NiAl(110) surface. In this electron-in-light-out experiment, optical phenomena are probed with sub-Ǻngström spatial resolution.