{"id":131412,"date":"2021-11-28T13:23:49","date_gmt":"2021-11-28T21:23:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/squeezed-light-can-give-nano-imaging-a-much-needed-boost"},"modified":"2021-11-28T13:23:49","modified_gmt":"2021-11-28T21:23:49","slug":"squeezed-light-can-give-nano-imaging-a-much-needed-boost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/squeezed-light-can-give-nano-imaging-a-much-needed-boost","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Squeezed\u2019 Light Can Give Nano-Imaging a Much Needed Boost"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/squeezed-light-can-give-nano-imaging-a-much-needed-boost2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s one thing to produce nano-scale materials, but it\u2019s an entirely different thing imaging them.<\/p>\n<p>Nanomaterials have many applications, especially in electronics, but they have one issue: They are so small that they don\u2019t reflect enough light to show fine details, such as colors, even with the aid of the most powerful microscopes.<\/p>\n<p>Now, researchers from UC Riverside may have come up with a solution. They have conceived of an imaging technology that compresses lamp light into a nanometer-sized spot, holding that light at the end of a silver nanowire. This allows it to reveal previously invisible details such as colors.<\/p>\n<p>The technique is not entirely new. It has been used in previous experiments to observe the vibration of molecular bonds at 1-nanometer spatial resolution without the need for a focusing lens.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers then modified the tool to measure signals spanning the whole visible wavelength range, essentially squeezing the light from a tungsten lamp into a silver nanowire with near-zero scattering or reflection.<\/p>\n<p>Full Story:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s one thing to produce nano-scale materials, but it\u2019s an entirely different thing imaging them. Nanomaterials have many applications, especially in electronics, but they have one issue: They are so small that they don\u2019t reflect enough light to show fine details, such as colors, even with the aid of the most powerful microscopes. Now, researchers [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials","category-nanotechnology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131412\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}