The results of a research group from the Institute of Physics at the University of Freiburg has been given a special place in Nature Photonics. An accompanying “News & Views” article in the print version of the science journal highlights the work of the team led by Alexander Lambrecht, Julian Schmidt, Dr. Leon Karpa and Prof. Dr. Tobias Schätz. In their article “Long lifetimes and effective isolation of ions in optical and electrostatic traps,” the work group describes the method they used to prevent the previously unavoidable driven motion of trapped charged atoms.