{"id":228050,"date":"2025-12-30T02:33:53","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T08:33:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/sharp-diffraction-pattern-produced-by-atoms-passing-through-graphene"},"modified":"2025-12-30T02:33:53","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T08:33:53","slug":"sharp-diffraction-pattern-produced-by-atoms-passing-through-graphene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/sharp-diffraction-pattern-produced-by-atoms-passing-through-graphene","title":{"rendered":"Sharp Diffraction Pattern Produced by Atoms Passing Through Graphene"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/sharp-diffraction-pattern-produced-by-atoms-passing-through-graphene2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers have generated high-quality atom diffraction data from graphene, which could lead to new ways to measure surface interactions.<\/p>\n<p>A beam of neutral atoms striking a material can produce a diffraction pattern that is sensitive to short-range interactions between the atoms and the surface. Building on recent developments, Pierre Guichard from the University of Strasbourg in France and collaborators have now used a fast hydrogen beam to probe single-layer graphene, producing the sharpest graphene diffraction patterns to date [<a href=\"https:\/\/physics.aps.org\/articles\/v18\/s166#c1\">1<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>Early atom diffraction experiments predominantly looked at reflection, because atoms transmitted through a material tend to lose their wave-like coherence. Recently, however, transmitted atoms were shown to produce a diffraction pattern from single-layer graphene [<a href=\"https:\/\/physics.aps.org\/articles\/v18\/s166#c2\">2<\/a>]. The trick was to use fast atoms that traverse the target quickly, minimizing coherence-destroying interactions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers have generated high-quality atom diffraction data from graphene, which could lead to new ways to measure surface interactions. A beam of neutral atoms striking a material can produce a diffraction pattern that is sensitive to short-range interactions between the atoms and the surface. Building on recent developments, Pierre Guichard from the University of Strasbourg [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-228050","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\/228050","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=228050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228050\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}