{"id":89850,"date":"2019-04-23T11:22:58","date_gmt":"2019-04-23T18:22:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/atomic-beams-shoot-straighter-via-cascading-silicon-peashooters"},"modified":"2019-04-23T11:22:58","modified_gmt":"2019-04-23T18:22:58","slug":"atomic-beams-shoot-straighter-via-cascading-silicon-peashooters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/atomic-beams-shoot-straighter-via-cascading-silicon-peashooters","title":{"rendered":"Atomic beams shoot straighter via cascading silicon peashooters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/atomic-beams-shoot-straighter-via-cascading-silicon-peashooters2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>To a non-physicist, an \u201catomic beam collimator\u201d may sound like a phaser firing mystical particles. That might not be the worst metaphor to introduce a technology that researchers have now miniaturized, making it more likely to someday land in handheld devices.<\/p>\n<p>Today, atomic <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/beam\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">beam<\/a> collimators are mostly found in physics labs, where they shoot out atoms in a beam that produces exotic quantum phenomena and which has properties that may be useful in precision technologies. By shrinking collimators from the size of a small appliance to fit on a fingertip, researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology want to make the technology available to engineers advancing devices like <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/atomic+clocks\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">atomic clocks<\/a> or accelerometers, a component found in smartphones.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA typical device you might make out of this is a next-generation gyroscope for a precision navigation system that is independent of GPS and can be used when you\u2019re out of satellite range in a remote region or traveling in space,\u201d said Chandra Raman, an associate professor in Georgia Tech\u2019s School of Physics and a co-principal investigator on the study.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2019-04-atomic-straighter-cascading-silicon-peashooters.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To a non-physicist, an \u201catomic beam collimator\u201d may sound like a phaser firing mystical particles. That might not be the worst metaphor to introduce a technology that researchers have now miniaturized, making it more likely to someday land in handheld devices. Today, atomic beam collimators are mostly found in physics labs, where they shoot out [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,1617,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89850","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89850\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}