Sentences with phrase «by micrometer»

So much of what makes up the human experience can not be measured by micrometer.

Not exact matches

The industrial country has high levels of PM2.5 (particulate matter at 2.5 micrometers), pollution caused by decades of heavy manufacturing and unfettered vehicle exhaust — particularly from motorbikes.

This system works by trapping a cellulose particle that's mere micrometers across in a beam of nearly invisible laser light.

By comparison, a human hair is between 50 and 70 micrometers thick.

A plasmonic detector that is directly coupled to a silicon optical waveguide and smaller than one micrometer was developed by KIT.

The new electrode grid, developed by a team of researchers at the University of California San Diego and Massachusetts General Hospital, is about a thousand times thinner — 6 micrometers versus several millimeters thick — than clinical electrode grids.

Molecules ranging in length (L) from 22 to 84 micrometers were held stationary against the flow by the optical trapping of a latex microsphere attached to one end.

That dimming is best explained by dust particles less than a micrometer in size, Boyajian says.

A paper in Science Advances by Rice engineers Ashok Veeraraghavan, Jacob Robinson, Richard Baraniuk and their labs describes a wide - field microscope thinner than a credit card, small enough to sit on a fingertip and capable of micrometer resolution over a volume of several cubic millimeters.

Kim et al. used femtosecond x-ray laser pulses to probe micrometer - sized water droplets cooled to 227 K (see the Perspective by Gallo and Stanley).

Fluorescently labeled synaptic vesicles inside the axons of cultured neurons were recorded with stimulated emission depletion (STED) microscopy in a 2.5 - micrometer by 1.8 - micrometer field of view.

As the scanner pokes its prey (here, a small, green plastic frog) with a needle - like probe driven by a tiny motor, a light sensor detects contact between probe and object with an accuracy of 30 micrometers, and a linear actuator translates the rotation of the Lego gears into linear distance at a resolution of 6.25 micrometers.

By measuring the effect for different material thicknesses in the range of a few nanometers up to several micrometers as well as for different temperatures, the scientists have found characteristic behavior.

But there's a catch: Dragged down by interactions with the metal and the insulator, most surface plasmons wane within a few micrometers — too short a distance to make them useful.

By the 1930s, the Owens Lake playa was the largest source in North America of PM10: particulate matter measuring 10 micrometers or less, small enough to readily enter human lungs.

At distances of 2 meters, the MIT researchers» system, by contrast, has a depth resolution of 3 micrometers.

By engravings using electron beam lithography, the waveguides of several micrometers in length are provided with finest cavities of a few nanometers in size.

Two condensates separated by ∼ 40 micrometers were created by evaporatively cooling sodium atoms in a double - well potential formed by magnetic and optical forces.

The electrodes are separated by a gap of about one tenth of a micrometer in width.

To dig a few centimeters deeper into Mercury's surface, solar physicist Amir Caspi and planetary scientist Constantine Tsang of the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colo., and colleagues will use an infrared camera, specially built by Alabama - based Southern Research, that detects wavelengths between 3 and 5 micrometers.

Geosmin was so repellent to this species that the larvae not only suppressed their diving behavior but escaped the vivarium by squeezing through shallow air channels only 200 micrometers in diameter.

Tubes are typically three micrometers wide and look like those in modern volcanic rock, which are thought to be made by microbes that consume the rock's nutrients.

After data processing, the echoes returned by the structures crossed by these waves can provide images with unequalled spatial and temporal resolution: 80 micrometers and a few tens of milliseconds.

By measuring on many locations with micrometer spacing between the measurement points, we can construct a two - dimensional image of the surface's repellency, called a wetting map,» explains Professor Quan Zhou from Aalto University School of Electrical Engineering.

The method developed in this research can be used to detect cesium carbonate particles at high resolution (micrometer - level) by using a fluorescent probe called «Cesium Green,» which also enables intracellular imaging of cesium distribution.

By unfolding into a cellular chain, clusters of cancer cells can slide through capillary tubes less than 10 micrometers wide, Sam Au of Harvard Medical School and colleagues report April 18 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

«Pushing a micrometers - wide particle through the air with a laser might be prone to distortion, if not outright failure, when even the slightest breeze wafts by,» GORT wrote.

The first one mimicked the micro-scale features of soil, consisting of 85 chambers, each 100x100x15 micrometers in size, linked by a narrow channel.

The hole is encircled by a series of etched grooves, with diameters of a few micrometers.

Assuming oil needs to be at least 1 micrometer thick to create a visible sheen, he explains, and assuming that an oil slick that thin has a 72 - hour lifespan at the surface, a leak of 14 gallons per day could only create a visible sheen 1.6 kilometers long by 91 meters wide.

Barberet worked with Michal Pomorski at CEA - LIST, who created the ultra-thin diamond sensor by slicing down and then plasma etching a commercially available, single - crystal diamond to about 1 micrometer thick.

The team managed to bend a laser beam 30 micrometers out of true by having it travel along a 3.5 - centimeter - long wire.

Their work has produced labs on a chip with flow channel cross sections as small as 18 micrometers by 20 micrometers.

The team determined this by detecting two types of carbon monoxide signatures, an absorption signature at a wavelength of about 1.6 micrometers and an emission signature at about 4.5 micrometers.

3D printing by direct laser writing produces micrometer - sized structures with precisely defined properties.

By simply switching to a 2005 semiconductor fabrication, the company can produce chips with features just 0.065 micrometers, or 65 nanometers, across, enabling them to cram more than 1 billion ion sensors on each chip.

Krivitsky notes that rod - cell efficiency is comparable to the quantum efficiencies of state - of - the - art human - made single - photon detectors such as photomultipliers (40 per cent) and avalanche photodiodes (50 per cent); remarkably, rod cells occupy an area of only 5 by 50 micrometers and contain their own power supply.

This record has now been broken by more than one order of magnitude, with the demonstration of micrometer length - scale chains.

The Weizmann scientists built an electric trap in which two electrons are bound to two strontium ions that are cooled close to absolute zero and separated by 2 micrometers (millionths of a meter).

Dated to 3.43 billion years ago in sandstone from the Strelley Pool Formation in Western Australia, the microstructures were found with micrometer - sized pyrite crystals (fool's gold, an iron - sulfur mineral), as would be expected as the metabolic by - products of sulfur - based life that employ «sulphate - reduction and sulphur - disproportionation pathways.»

The scientists synthesized the sponges by a chemical vapor deposition (CVD) process during which the CNTs (multi-walled nanotubes with diameters in the range of 30 to 50nm and lengths of tens to hundreds of micrometers,) self - assembled into a porous, interconnected, three - dimensional framework.

The product of decades of trial and error by Willett and his collaborators, it was made from a flake of gallium arsenide so pure, he said, that electrons inside could sense one another's presence across vast micrometers of distance.

But if you wait for the sunset, the sun looks red because the blue and ultraviolet light is scattered away by tiny particles.The new study suggests the objects causing the long - period dimming of Tabby's Star can be no more than a few micrometers in diameter (about one ten - thousandth of an inch).

The other set of studies, led by Destaillats working with Berkeley Lab scientists Lara Gundel and Jennifer Logue, will look at the particulate matter in thirdhand smoke, or PM2.5, particles smaller than 2.5 micrometers in size.

The molecular structure of CO2 is such that it is «tuned» to the wavelengths of infrared (heat) radiation emitted by the Earth's surface back into space, in particular to the 15 micrometer band.

An element or compound is considered colloidal when the particles are sized between one nanometer and one micrometer, and the energy of the substance is predominantly governed by surface effects.

I am confused by these instructions on how to use a micrometer.

«how can a forcing driven by longwave absorption and emission impact the ocean below since the infrared radiation does not penetrate more than a few micrometers into the ocean?»

However, some have insisted that there is a paradox here — how can a forcing driven by longwave absorption and emission impact the ocean below since the infrared radiation does not penetrate more than a few micrometers into the ocean?

«Carbon dioxide absorbs in the atmospheric «window» from 7 to 14 micrometers which transmits thermal radiation emitted by the earth's surface and lower atmosphere.