Sentences with phrase «at nanometer scale»

Nanotechnology is the understanding and control of matter at the nanometer scale, where unique phenomena enable novel applications.

«These experiments provide a deeper understanding of the fundamental physics of electron transport, while laying the groundwork for technological advances at the nanometer scale,» she said.

At the University, she extended her research interests, broadly based on optics and laser - matter interactions, to encompass materials science and technologies, in particular at the nanometer scale.

An imaging technique that uses cleverly chosen fluorescent reporter molecules to examine the fate of photogenerated electrons and holes in a semiconductor at the nanometer scale is «a breakthrough,» says Bruce A. Parkinson, a photocatalysis specialist at the University of Wyoming.

Technical introductions to advanced nanotechnology have emphasized theoretical studies of what our current knowledge of physics and chemistry tells us about the kinds of systems we will eventually be able to build as our ability to control the structure of matter at the nanometer scale increases.

Nanotechnology is a group of emerging technologies in which the structure of matter is controlled at the nanometer scale, the scale of small numbers of atoms, to produce novel materials and devices that have useful and unique properties.

Some of these technologies impose only limited control of structure at the nanometer scale, but they are already in use, producing useful products.

As incremental advances in nanotechnology provide increasingly fine control over the structure of matter at the nanometer scale, they point toward the even greater advances that will occur once high - throughput atomically precise manufacturing becomes available.

For better understanding of the inferior performance in fuel cells, morphology and ion conductive structure were investigated at nanometer scale by a material sensitive, conductive AFM.

«Using a combination of spectroscopic and electrochemical methods, we showed that these films can be made compact and continuous at the nanometer scale, thus minimizing parasitic light absorption when integrated on top of photoactive semiconductors.»

Trained as a physicist, I found my way through optical physics, nanotechnology, and biophysics to learn how to visualize the arrangement and the interaction of molecules at the nanometer scale and how to probe and manipulate them.

In these hybrid materials, the metal component is structurally engineered at the nanometer scale to provide the desired optical properties.

«It's a scalable, controllable way to manipulate the electron's spin at the nanometer scale,» Awschalom says.

As scientists move toward nanotechnology, however, the focus has shifted toward creating alloys at the nanometer scale — producing materials with properties unlike their predecessors.

At the nanometer scale, gold particles are very chemically reactive and make excellent catalysts.

His «nanotomography» method turns a scanning probe microscope on successive layers of a material to build up three - dimensional images of its innards at the nanometer scale.

Living cells are micrometer - scale units capable of replication, growth, chemical synthesis, and movement using technologies operating on individual molecules at the nanometer scale.

Mapping thermal expansion coefficients in freestanding 2D materials at the nanometer scale.

Joint research between Tampere University of Technology (TUT)(Finland) and University of Tübingen (Germany) has shown that carefully structured light and matching arrangements of metal nanostructures (so - called «plasmonic oligomers») can be combined to alter the properties of the generated light at the nanometer scale.

Dealing with engineering at the nanometer scale and below requires probabilities.

Now scientists are tweaking solar cell materials at nanometer scales to squeeze out better performance without increasing their prices or complexity, finding loopholes through the SQ limit.

Not exact matches

The new chips are manufactured at a scale of 12 nanometers, down from 14 nm for last year's Ryzen line, which should make them more energy efficient and higher performing.

AMD was also able to move manufacturing of the chip at partner GlobalFoundries from a 14 - nanometer scale to a 12 - nanometer scale, allowing for higher clock speeds and better energy consumption.

For several decades, nanomaterials — matter that is so small it is measured in nanometers (one nanometer = one - billionth of a meter) and can be manipulated at the atomic scale — have outperformed conventional materials in strength, conductivity and other key attributes.

To map the minute landscape of molecules, at scales as tiny as just tenths of a nanometer, and help decipher their functions, structural biologists have long relied on two tools: nuclear magnetic resonance, or NMR, spectroscopy and X-ray crystallography.

«This level of 3D stability may start to interest the nanomanufacturing world, when they look at making and characterizing things on the single - nanometer scale.»

It will open a completely new set of applications, such as optical communications and sensing at a scale below one nanometer,» said ICREA Professor Frank Koppens at ICFO — The Institute of Photonic Sciences in Barcelona, Spain, who led the research.

Taking child's play with building blocks to a whole new level - the nanometer scale - scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory have constructed 3D «superlattice» multicomponent nanoparticle arrays where the arrangement of particles is driven by the shape of the tiny building blocks.

A multidisciplinary team at the Centre d'Elaboration de Matériaux et d'Etudes Structurales (CEMES, CNRS), working in collaboration with physicists in Singapore and chemists in Bristol (UK), have shown that crystalline gold nanoparticles aligned and then fused into long chains can be used to confine light energy down to the nanometer scale while allowing its long - range propagation.

At the smallest scale, the awns are covered with grooves about 100 nanometers deep and 200 nanometers wide, the perfect size for dew to condense within them when conditions are right.

«Using standard lithography fabrication techniques, studies have seen mobility of 100 cm2 / Vs or even lower, but our material still exceeds 2000 cm2 / Vs even at the sub-10 nanometer scale, demonstrating that these nanoribbons are of very high quality.»

Using a technique known as DNA origami, biophysicist Hendrik Dietz has been building nanometer - scale objects for several years at the Technical University of Munich (TUM).

An international team of researchers led by physicists at the University of Basel have been studying the lubricity of this material on the nanometer scale.

At the beginning of 2007, shortly after I joined the engineering faculty at Yale, I began to assemble a team to find ways of using light to drive silicon devices on a nanometer scalAt the beginning of 2007, shortly after I joined the engineering faculty at Yale, I began to assemble a team to find ways of using light to drive silicon devices on a nanometer scalat Yale, I began to assemble a team to find ways of using light to drive silicon devices on a nanometer scale.

But at nanometer - size scales for water and potentially other fluids, whether the container is made of glass or plastic does make a significant difference.

In previous investigations, the Yan group created subtle architectural forms at an astonishingly minute scale, some measuring only tens of nanometers across — roughly the diameter of a virus particle.

This requires us to visualize the interactions that are happening at the scale of nanometers, which are billionths of a meter.

At the near - nanometer scale, researchers are developing a robust method to quantify atomic - scale changes at energy storage material interfaces using the new generation of aberration - corrected microscopes and in situ stageAt the near - nanometer scale, researchers are developing a robust method to quantify atomic - scale changes at energy storage material interfaces using the new generation of aberration - corrected microscopes and in situ stageat energy storage material interfaces using the new generation of aberration - corrected microscopes and in situ stages.

At that scale, when the nanotubes are hit by near - infrared light with wavelengths of about 800 to 1,400 nanometers, they naturally fluoresce.

In collaboration with U.S. and UK universities, scientists at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory are inventing the tools and techniques to generate in situ or in - place images at the nanometer and near - nanometer scales.

Abstract: Scientists at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) have devised a clever combination of materials — when used during the thin - film growth process — to reveal that particle atomic layer deposition, or p - ALD, deposits a uniform nanometer - thick shell on core particles regardless of core size, a discovery having significant impacts for many applications since most large scale powder production techniques form powder batches that are made up of a range of particles sizes.

Stephan Saalfeld (Tomancak, MPG)-- «Towards Large Scale Reconstruction of Neuro - Anatomy at Nanometer Resolution» (2013)

These were the first computational structures in which all of the components necessary for computation were at the nanometer length scale; it served to underscore the importance of investigating alternative modes of computation in nanometer - scale structures.

Thus, a nanometer is one billionth of a meter, which is the length scale at which intermolecular force and quantum effect take hold.

Nanotechnology deals with objects at the molecular scale - anything under 100 nanometers.

Filippetto has a goal to improve the focus of the HiRES electron beam from microns, or millionths of a meter in diameter, to the nanometer scale (billionths of a meter), and to also improve the timing from hundredths of femtoseconds to tens of femtoseconds to boost the quality of the images it produces and also to study even faster processes at the atomic scale.

Nanotechnology refers to manipulating the structure of matter on a length scale of some small number of nanometers, interpreted by different people at different times as meaning anything from 0.1 nm (controlling the arrangement of individual atoms) to 100 nm or more (anything smaller than microtechnology).

From the mid-1980s on progress in nanometer - scale science and technology exploded, and the term nanotechnology was appropriated by researchers, media, businesses, and funding agencies to refer to any technology in which control of the structure of matter on a scale of nanometers to tens of nanometers to hundreds of nanometers in at least one dimension enabled unique phenomena and novel applications.

The scale at the bottom shows the length of 100 nanometers (nm).

Amazing things can happen at the scale where things are measured in nanometers, billionths of a meter.