The metamirror designed by physicist Viktar Asadchy and colleagues at Aalto University in Finland looks very different:
It consists of millimeter - sized loops of copper wire embedded in plastic.
Not exact matches
The researchers say they have demonstrated a proof -
of - concept prototype that, when less than 1,000 volts were applied, got the case to contract and push a fluid
consisting of deionized water and food dye up so that a pin would rise more than 0.5
millimeters — the standard height
of a Braille dot — in less than 100 milliseconds (initial experiments have been done without a pin in the case).
It
consists mostly
of light - sensing cells, but one tenth
of a
millimeter of its thickness is populated by image - processing circuitry that is capable
of detecting edges (boundaries between light and dark) and motion for about a million tiny image regions.
The sensor
consists of an optical fiber with a small, half -
millimeter gap in the middle, surrounded by resin.
* The data were obtained by ALMA; the Combined Array for Research in
Millimeter - wave Astronomy: a millimeter array consisting of 23 parabola antennas in California; the Submillimeter Array a submillimeter array consisting of eight parabola antennas in Mauna Kea, Hawaii; the Plateau de Bure Interferometer; the NAOJ Nobeyama Radio Observatory 45m radio telescope; USA's National Radio Astronomy Observatory 12m telescope; USA's Five College Radio Astronomy Observatory 14m telescope; IRAM's 30m telescope; and the Swedish - ESO Submillimeter Telescope as a s
Millimeter - wave Astronomy: a
millimeter array consisting of 23 parabola antennas in California; the Submillimeter Array a submillimeter array consisting of eight parabola antennas in Mauna Kea, Hawaii; the Plateau de Bure Interferometer; the NAOJ Nobeyama Radio Observatory 45m radio telescope; USA's National Radio Astronomy Observatory 12m telescope; USA's Five College Radio Astronomy Observatory 14m telescope; IRAM's 30m telescope; and the Swedish - ESO Submillimeter Telescope as a s
millimeter array
consisting of 23 parabola antennas in California; the Submillimeter Array a submillimeter array
consisting of eight parabola antennas in Mauna Kea, Hawaii; the Plateau de Bure Interferometer; the NAOJ Nobeyama Radio Observatory 45m radio telescope; USA's National Radio Astronomy Observatory 12m telescope; USA's Five College Radio Astronomy Observatory 14m telescope; IRAM's 30m telescope; and the Swedish - ESO Submillimeter Telescope as a supplement.
The new sensor
consists of a 1 -
millimeter long portion
of the end
of an optical fiber that narrows and is bent into a configuration called an S taper.
«We used silver and carbon ink to print an image
consisting of small rods that are about a
millimeter long and a couple
of hundred microns wide,» said Ajay Nahata from the University
of Utah, leader
of the research team.
Another more recent example
of international partnership, involving Europe, the United States, Canada, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, and Chile, is the Atacama Large
Millimeter / submillimeter Array (ALMA), a radio interferometer telescope
consisting of sixty - six antennas sitting at an altitude
of 5,000 meters in the north
of Chilehe Atacama Desert.
ALMA will
consist of 64 12 - meter - diameter dish antennas comprising a single imaging telescope to study the universe at
millimeter and submillimeter wavelengths — the region between radio waves and infrared waves.
His TVSS
consisted of a dentist's chair equipped with 400 tiny Teflon «tips,» or stimulators, arrayed 12
millimeters apart on the seat back.
The partition between the passenger compartment and boot
of the BMW i8
consists of two layers
of chemically hardened glass, each
of which is just 0.7
millimeters thick, with acoustic sheeting sandwiched in between.
Trying to Find the Spiral Jetty: Robert Smithson
consists of a single 35
millimeter color slide projection, a relic
of Dean's failed 1997 effort to visit the late earthwork artist's iconic masterpiece, a work which appears only irregularly, as the water level
of Great Salt Lake rises and falls.
This large work
consists of 700 photographs — 35 -
millimeter snapshots, really — methodically arranged in rows depicting events, people, and sites in the Faeroe Islands, and, as the title indicates, spanning three seasons.
When confronted with room after room
of Hirst's colored spots ranging in diameter from a few
millimeters to sixty inches, at times displayed in densely packed grids made up
of thousands
of dots and at others
consisting of but a handful or even just a single dot, there is a sort
of decentering
of vision — a blinding, to use Foster's term — that begins to take place.
The SolaRoad is a unique platform just 70 meters long — for now — that
consists of several synthetic layers topped by 3 -
millimeter, glass - covered solar panels engineered to convert sunrays into energy — even on a perfectly cloudy day.