{"id":65,"date":"2008-12-08T11:58:21","date_gmt":"2008-12-08T15:58:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsnews\/2008\/12\/08\/emily-nelson-12-research-update\/"},"modified":"2008-12-08T11:58:39","modified_gmt":"2008-12-08T15:58:39","slug":"emily-nelson-12-research-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsnews\/2008\/12\/08\/emily-nelson-12-research-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Emily Nelson &#8217;12: Research Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsnews\/files\/2008\/12\/emilyspencernelson.jpg\" title=\"emilyspencernelson.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsnews\/files\/2008\/12\/emilyspencernelson.jpg\" alt=\"emilyspencernelson.jpg\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a>First year student Emily Nelson has recently begun work on a research project with professor Matt Trawick that seeks to improve the accuracy of atomic force microscope images.\u00a0 The atomic force microscope in Trawick&#8217;s experimental research lab, a $200,000 instrument, is capable of resolving features on the scale of about one nanometer in size, about 1000 times smaller than conventional optical microscopes.\u00a0 Emily is working to correct for a particular kind of image distortion that is common to such microscopes; the correction would allow these instruments to be used for sub-nanometer precision measurements in three spatial dimensions, and would be broadly useful to researchers in a variety of fields.\u00a0 Emily expects to major in computer science, and also has interests in biology and the physical sciences.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First year student Emily Nelson has recently begun work on a research project with professor Matt Trawick that seeks to improve the accuracy of atomic force microscope images.\u00a0 The atomic force microscope in Trawick&#8217;s experimental research lab, a $200,000 instrument, is capable of resolving features on the scale of about one nanometer in size, about &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsnews\/2008\/12\/08\/emily-nelson-12-research-update\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Emily Nelson &#8217;12: Research Update<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[508],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-research"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}