{"id":77136,"date":"2018-03-23T16:02:53","date_gmt":"2018-03-23T23:02:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/scientists-unveil-high-sensitivity-3d-technique-using-single-atom-measurements"},"modified":"2018-03-23T16:02:53","modified_gmt":"2018-03-23T23:02:53","slug":"scientists-unveil-high-sensitivity-3d-technique-using-single-atom-measurements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/scientists-unveil-high-sensitivity-3d-technique-using-single-atom-measurements","title":{"rendered":"Scientists unveil high-sensitivity 3D technique using single-atom measurements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-unveil-high-sensitivity-3d-technique-using-single-atom-measurements.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers at Griffith University working with Australia\u2019s Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) have unveiled a stunningly accurate technique for scientific measurements which uses a single atom as the sensor, with sensitivity down to 100 zeptoNewtons.<\/p>\n<p>Using highly miniaturised segmented-style Fresnel lenses \u2014 the same design used in lighthouses for more than a century \u2014 which enable exceptionally high-quality images of a single atom, the scientists have been able to detect position displacements with nanometre precision in three dimensions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur atom is missing one electron, so it\u2019s very sensitive to electrical fields. By measuring the displacement, we\u2019ve built a very sensitive tool for measuring electrical forces.\u201d Dr Erik Streed, of the Centre for Quantum Dynamics, explained.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2018-03-scientists-unveil-high-sensitivity-d-technique.html\">https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2018&#45;03-scientists-unveil-high-sen...nique.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at Griffith University working with Australia\u2019s Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) have unveiled a stunningly accurate technique for scientific measurements which uses a single atom as the sensor, with sensitivity down to 100 zeptoNewtons. Using highly miniaturised segmented-style Fresnel lenses \u2014 the same design used in lighthouses for more than a century [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77136","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77136\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}