{"id":197617,"date":"2024-10-14T01:23:58","date_gmt":"2024-10-14T06:23:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/10\/scientists-build-worlds-thinnest-lens-measuring-just-3-atoms-thick"},"modified":"2024-10-14T01:23:58","modified_gmt":"2024-10-14T06:23:58","slug":"scientists-build-worlds-thinnest-lens-measuring-just-3-atoms-thick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/10\/scientists-build-worlds-thinnest-lens-measuring-just-3-atoms-thick","title":{"rendered":"Scientists build world\u2019s thinnest lens, measuring just 3 atoms thick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-build-worlds-thinnest-lens-measuring-just-3-atoms-thick2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The world\u2019s thinnest lens diffracts light of specific wavelengths instead of refracting it.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>By arranging a special material in concentric rings, researchers have built the world\u2019s thinnest lens at just three atoms thickness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The world\u2019s thinnest lens diffracts light of specific wavelengths instead of refracting it. By arranging a special material in concentric rings, researchers have built the world\u2019s thinnest lens at just three atoms thickness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197617","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197617\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}