{"id":139277,"date":"2022-05-13T00:24:16","date_gmt":"2022-05-13T05:24:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/new-microscope-technique-powerful-enough-to-watch-atoms-vibrate"},"modified":"2022-05-13T00:24:16","modified_gmt":"2022-05-13T05:24:16","slug":"new-microscope-technique-powerful-enough-to-watch-atoms-vibrate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/new-microscope-technique-powerful-enough-to-watch-atoms-vibrate","title":{"rendered":"New Microscope Technique Powerful Enough to Watch Atoms Vibrate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-microscope-technique-powerful-enough-to-watch-atoms-vibrate2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A team of Cornell University engineers developed a new microscopy technique that\u2019s powerful enough to <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/for-the-first-time-quantum-physicists-were-able-to-pinpoint-the-location-of-an-atom\" class=\"\">spot an individual atom<\/a> in three dimensions \u2014 and create an image so clear that the only blurriness comes from the movement of that atom itself.<\/p>\n<p>The technique, which <a href=\"https:\/\/science.sciencemag.org\/content\/372\/6544\/826\" class=\"\">according to the study<\/a> published Thursday in the journal <em>Science<\/em> relies on an electron microscope coupled with sophisticated 3D reconstruction algorithms, doesn\u2019t just set a new record in atom resolution. The researchers even say this might be as good as microscopy gets.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis doesn\u2019t just set a new record,\u201d lead author and Cornell engineer David Muller <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2021-05-atoms-resolution.html\" class=\"\">said in a press release<\/a>. \u201cIt\u2019s reached a regime which is effectively going to be an ultimate limit for resolution. We basically can now figure out where the atoms are in a very easy way. This opens up a whole lot of new measurement possibilities of things we\u2019ve wanted to do for a very long time.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team of Cornell University engineers developed a new microscopy technique that\u2019s powerful enough to spot an individual atom in three dimensions \u2014 and create an image so clear that the only blurriness comes from the movement of that atom itself. The technique, which according to the study published Thursday in the journal Science relies [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-information-science","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139277","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139277\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}