{"id":222208,"date":"2025-09-20T04:28:01","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T09:28:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/researchers-are-first-to-image-directional-atomic-vibrations"},"modified":"2025-09-20T04:28:01","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T09:28:01","slug":"researchers-are-first-to-image-directional-atomic-vibrations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/researchers-are-first-to-image-directional-atomic-vibrations","title":{"rendered":"Researchers are first to image directional atomic vibrations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/researchers-are-first-to-image-directional-atomic-vibrations2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers at the University of California, Irvine, together with international collaborators, have developed a new electron microscopy method that has enabled the first-ever imaging of vibrations, or phonons, in specific directions at the atomic scale.<\/p>\n<p>In many crystallized materials, atoms vibrate differently along varying directions, a property known as vibrational anisotropy, which strongly influences their dielectric, thermal and even superconducting behavior. Gaining a deeper understanding of this anisotropy allows engineers to tailor materials for use in electronics, semiconductors, optics and quantum computing.<\/p>\n<p>In a paper <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41586-025-09511-z\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in <i>Nature<\/i>, the UC Irvine-led team details the workings of its momentum-selective electron energy-loss spectroscopy technique and its power to unveil the fundamental lattice dynamics of functional materials.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at the University of California, Irvine, together with international collaborators, have developed a new electron microscopy method that has enabled the first-ever imaging of vibrations, or phonons, in specific directions at the atomic scale. In many crystallized materials, atoms vibrate differently along varying directions, a property known as vibrational anisotropy, which strongly influences their [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-222208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222208","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=222208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222208\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}