{"id":218199,"date":"2025-07-18T06:24:50","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T11:24:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/new-microscopy-technique-achieves-1-nanometer-resolution-for-atomic-scale-imaging"},"modified":"2025-07-18T06:24:50","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T11:24:50","slug":"new-microscopy-technique-achieves-1-nanometer-resolution-for-atomic-scale-imaging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/new-microscopy-technique-achieves-1-nanometer-resolution-for-atomic-scale-imaging","title":{"rendered":"New microscopy technique achieves 1-nanometer resolution for atomic-scale imaging"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-microscopy-technique-achieves-1-nanometer-resolution-for-atomic-scale-imaging.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Understanding the interaction between light and matter at the smallest scales (angstrom scale) is essential for advancing technology and materials science. Atomic-scale structures, such as defects in diamonds or molecules in electronic devices, can significantly influence a material\u2019s optical properties and functionality. To explore these tiny structures, we need to extend the capabilities of optical microscopy.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers at the Fritz-Haber Institute of the Max-Planck Society, Germany, and their international collaborators at Institute for Molecular Science\/SOKENDAI, Japan and CIC nanoGUNE, Spain have developed an approach to scattering-type scanning near-field optical microscopy (s-SNOM) that achieves a spatial resolution of 1 nanometer. This technique, termed as ultralow tip oscillation amplitude s-SNOM (ULA-SNOM), combines advanced microscopy methods to visualize materials at the atomic level.<\/p>\n<p>The work is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/doi\/10.1126\/sciadv.adu1415\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in the journal Science Advances.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Understanding the interaction between light and matter at the smallest scales (angstrom scale) is essential for advancing technology and materials science. Atomic-scale structures, such as defects in diamonds or molecules in electronic devices, can significantly influence a material\u2019s optical properties and functionality. To explore these tiny structures, we need to extend the capabilities of optical [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1694,1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-218199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-electronics","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218199","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=218199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218199\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}