{"id":177449,"date":"2023-12-05T07:23:18","date_gmt":"2023-12-05T13:23:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/doughnut-beams-help-physicists-see-incredibly-small-objects"},"modified":"2023-12-05T07:23:18","modified_gmt":"2023-12-05T13:23:18","slug":"doughnut-beams-help-physicists-see-incredibly-small-objects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/doughnut-beams-help-physicists-see-incredibly-small-objects","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Doughnut\u2019 beams help physicists see incredibly small objects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/doughnut-beams-help-physicists-see-incredibly-small-objects2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In a new study published in <i>Optica<\/i>, researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder have used doughnut-shaped beams of light to take <a href=\"https:\/\/opg.optica.org\/optica\/fulltext.cfm?uri=optica-10-9-1245&id=538546\">detailed images of objects too tiny to view<\/a> with traditional microscopes.<\/p>\n<p>The new technique could help scientists improve the inner workings of a range of \u201cnanoelectronics,\u201d including the miniature semiconductors in computer chips. The discovery was also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.optica-opn.org\/home\/articles\/volume_34\/december_2023\/extras\/high-fidelity_ptychography_of_highly_periodic_stru\/\">highlighted<\/a> in a special issue of Optics &amp; Photonics News.<\/p>\n<p>The research is the latest advance in the field of ptychography, a difficult-to-pronounce (the \u201cp\u201d is silent) but powerful technique for viewing very small things. Unlike traditional microscopes, ptychography tools don\u2019t directly view small objects. Instead, they shine lasers at a target and then measure how the light scatters away\u2014a bit like the microscopic equivalent of making shadow puppets on a wall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a new study published in Optica, researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder have used doughnut-shaped beams of light to take detailed images of objects too tiny to view with traditional microscopes. The new technique could help scientists improve the inner workings of a range of \u201cnanoelectronics,\u201d including the miniature semiconductors in computer chips. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-177449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177449","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\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177449\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}