{"id":184820,"date":"2024-03-10T01:23:33","date_gmt":"2024-03-10T07:23:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/ingenious-new-method-measures-the-3d-position-of-individual-atoms"},"modified":"2024-03-10T01:23:33","modified_gmt":"2024-03-10T07:23:33","slug":"ingenious-new-method-measures-the-3d-position-of-individual-atoms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/ingenious-new-method-measures-the-3d-position-of-individual-atoms","title":{"rendered":"Ingenious New Method Measures the 3D Position of Individual Atoms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ingenious-new-method-measures-the-3d-position-of-individual-atoms2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For over ten years, physicists have been able to pinpoint the exact positions of individual atoms with a precision finer than one-thousandth of a millimeter using a specialized microscope. However, this method has so far only provided the x and y coordinates. Information on the vertical position of the atom \u2013 i.e., the distance between the atom and the microscope objective \u2013 is lacking.<\/p>\n<p>A new method has now been developed that can determine all three spatial coordinates of an atom with one single image. This method \u2013 developed by the <a href=\"https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/tag\/university-of-bonn\/\">University of Bonn<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/tag\/university-of-bristol\/\">University of Bristol<\/a> \u2013 is based on an ingenious physical principle. The study was recently published in the specialist journal <em><i>Physical Review A<\/i><\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For over ten years, physicists have been able to pinpoint the exact positions of individual atoms with a precision finer than one-thousandth of a millimeter using a specialized microscope. However, this method has so far only provided the x and y coordinates. Information on the vertical position of the atom \u2013 i.e., the distance between [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184820","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184820\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}