{"id":217527,"date":"2025-07-10T01:26:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-10T06:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/visualization-of-atomic-scale-magnetism-achieved-with-new-imaging-method"},"modified":"2025-07-10T01:26:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-10T06:26:10","slug":"visualization-of-atomic-scale-magnetism-achieved-with-new-imaging-method","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/visualization-of-atomic-scale-magnetism-achieved-with-new-imaging-method","title":{"rendered":"Visualization of atomic-scale magnetism achieved with new imaging method"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/visualization-of-atomic-scale-magnetism-achieved-with-new-imaging-method2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An international research team led by Forschungszentrum J\u00fclich has succeeded in visualizing magnetism inside solids with unprecedented precision. Using a newly developed method, the scientists were able to image the finest building blocks of magnetism directly at the atomic level. They have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41563-025-02242-6\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> their findings in the journal Nature Materials.<\/p>\n<p>Magnetism is an integral part of our everyday lives\u2014it is found in <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/electric+motors\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">electric motors<\/a>, loudspeakers, and the storage media of modern computers. It is generated by the movement and spin of electrons. Previous techniques could only measure these properties to a limited extent and often only on the surface of materials. The team led by Dr. Hasan Ali and Prof. Rafal E. Dunin-Borkowski has now developed a new method using a state-of-the-art electron microscope to measure <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/magnetic+properties\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">magnetic properties<\/a> at a previously unattainable resolution.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur technique allows us to visualize the magnetic properties within a material with atomic precision,\u201d explains Dr. Hasan Ali, first author of the study. \u201cThis enables us to observe how the movement and spin of electrons behave in the <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/crystal+lattice\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">crystal lattice<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An international research team led by Forschungszentrum J\u00fclich has succeeded in visualizing magnetism inside solids with unprecedented precision. Using a newly developed method, the scientists were able to image the finest building blocks of magnetism directly at the atomic level. They have published their findings in the journal Nature Materials. Magnetism is an integral part [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-217527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217527","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=217527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217527\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}