Sentences with phrase «few atoms»

The quantum projection noise (blue line) already dominates with few atoms.

They imprinted a sound wave onto their cloud — alternating regions of more atoms and fewer atoms around the ring, like a wave in the early universe — and watched it disperse during expansion.

The Kondo effect, first described last century by the Japanese physicist Jun Kondo, is observed when magnetic impurities, i.e., very few atoms (even only 1 in 1000) of magnetic material such as iron are added to metals like gold or copper.

even if it was the simple act of colliding a few atoms.

Two - dimensional materials, consisting of extremely thin layers that are a few atoms thick, have unique properties that are completely different than the normal three - dimensional versions.

Only a few atoms of the synthetic element have ever been created, each of which survived for less than a...

The 2 - D semiconductors expand at higher temps, but those made of one - atom - thick sheets swell more than semiconductors a few atoms thick.

These materials were arranged in sheets from a single atom to a few atoms thick.

It consists of a tiny metal finger with a tip only a few atoms wide that moves back and forth just above the surface of a sample.

While optical light has a wavelength in the hundreds of nanometers, necessitating a thin coating only a few atoms thick, audible sound waves can be meters long.

Carefully tuned in the laboratory, these coatings can produce a bright, solid pink — or, say, a vivid blue — using the same two metals, applied with only a few atoms» difference in thickness.

Although there are no naturally occurring antimatter atoms, in 1995 physicists at the European Center for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Geneva cobbled together a few atoms of antihydrogen by linking a positron to an antiproton and have since made tens of thousands more.

A FLAKE of exotic carbon a few atoms thick has claimed a record: the speck has been spun faster than any other object.

In an article published online March 10 in the journal Advanced Materials, Dr. Moon Kim and his colleagues describe a material that, when heated to about 450 degrees Celsius, transforms from an atomically thin, two - dimensional sheet into an array of one - dimensional nanowires, each just a few atoms wide.

The probe of a scanning tunneling microscope has a tip, sharpened to only a few atoms, that hovers several angstroms above the surface to be imaged.

Essentially the microscopic equivalent of a single sheet of paper, a 2 - D nanosheet is a material just a few atoms thick.

Since each qubit was actually the average of trillions of atoms, it didn't matter if a few atoms got disturbed by a wayward molecule here and there.

The new nanoscale manufacturing process draws zinc to the surface of a liquid, where it forms sheets just a few atoms thick.

A group of materials scientists has unleashed atomic - scale earthworms, which eat meandering trenches just a few atoms wide through a semiconductor.

The surfaces of the mirrors have bumps and valleys that are the size of a few atoms.

Fortunately, we don't know how to store more than a few atoms» worth of it at a time.

He said glass appeared to be structured randomly, but it was actually quite ordered at the microscopic level of a few atoms.

The success of the new invention in finding a few atoms among trillions of others began to attract attention, and Hurst's method was soon adopted by laboratories throughout the world to tackle a great variety of practical problems.

Sheets of graphene, one to a few atoms thick, and aligned, single - walled carbon nanotubes self - assemble into an interconnected prorous network that run the length of the fiber.

Physicists studying high - temperature superconductivity have tended to discount an idea that has hovered at the fringes of the field for several years — that charges percolate back and forth through these materials in a series of stripes, a few atoms wide, creating a landscape that helps current flow effortlessly through the material in all directions.

Carbon nanotubes are amazing because they're really good electrical conductors, yet they are only a few atoms in diameter.

But if they are placed only a few atoms apart, then the space between them is not enough for some quantum fluctuations to occur.

Each of the layers is only a few atoms thick.

Reduced to only a few atoms thick, silicon dioxide is apt to leak current, putting up a road - block to further technical advancement.

«The carbon bonds are so stable that small transistors of even only a few atoms can sustain high currents,» Novoselov says.

For such applications, TMD flakes that are a few atoms thick are sufficient.

If successful, says García de Abajo, the vortex beam will be an important resource for those working to reduce electronic chips to just a few atoms.

«An electron vortex beam could manipulate nanomaterials just a few atoms thick,» says Verbeeck, which would help efforts to build ever - smaller electronic chips.

Considering the short lifetime of Rydberg atoms — they decay after a couple of ten microseconds — the generation of distinct crystal phases made of a few atoms is an amazing experimental success made possible only by the sophisticated methods of high precision steering of atoms developed in the Bloch group.

The advantages of transmitting light signals instead of electrical ones have led to ultrapure glass, semiconductor alloys only a few atoms thick and «nonlinear» materials that are now revolutionizing communications

Only a few atoms of the synthetic element have ever been created, each of which survived for less than a millisecond.

A team of MIT researchers has used a novel material that's just a few atoms thick to create devices that can harness or emit light.

The first models involved only a few atoms.

On the right, below the critical temperature, the whole layer has joined into one cluster with only a few atoms knocked out of alignment by thermal vibrations.

Cells shuttle all sorts of materials through these channels, which consist of proteins packed around a tiny opening that is often less than a few atoms across.

An ultrafine tip, measuring only a few atoms wide, passes over a sample surface, generating an electric current through which electrons can «tunnel.»

On top of the graphene is a very thin layer, just a few atoms thick, of boron nitride, which protects the electrons in the graphene from outside influences.

The difference may sound cosmetic, but when the goal is manipulating things that are a few atoms thick, going from tube to sheet makes a big difference.

The result was a few atoms of the 117 - proton element, which still awaits a formal name.

Propp used an extended analogy of preparing a margarita only a few atoms in volume, which the judges found relatable yet accurate enough to capture Propp's complicated thesis project.

At the scale of just a few atoms, a mercury - style thermometer is not an option.

A research team led by UCLA scientists and engineers has developed a method to make new kinds of artificial «superlattices» — materials composed of alternating layers of ultra-thin «two - dimensional» sheets, which are only one or a few atoms thick.