Sentences with phrase «few nanometres»

A suspension of airborne solid or liquid particles, with a typical size between a few nanometres and 10 μm that reside in the atmosphere for at least several hours.

Aerosols A suspension of airborne solid or liquid particles, with a typical size between a few nanometres and 10 μm that reside in the atmosphere for at least several hours.

Back radiation can not be added to solar flux when determining the surface temperature and, in fact, it does not penetrate warmer water by more than a few nanometres.

Before you say it's the back radiation, I have to tell you that radiation from colder regions does not penetrate the warmer ocean surface more than a few nanometres.

«We were exploring the relationship between the electrical and optical properties of phase change materials and then had the idea of creating this GST «sandwich» made up of layers just a few nanometres thick.

With length of several micrometres the wires can exceed the length of the cells by far, but their diameter is only a few nanometres.

Because the current depends very sensitively on this distance, by scanning the tip over the sample surface it is possible to obtain an image of the surface with a resolution of only a few nanometres.

Keeping electrons on track is easy: they obediently confine themselves to metal wires as thin as a few nanometres across.

However, gold particles of a few nanometres in size, anchored to a titanium dioxide surface, fulfil their purpose.

Quantum dots are tiny structures, measuring no more than a few nanometres across, which due to quantum confinement can only assume certain, discrete states comparable to the energy level of a single atom.

The technique is highly sensitive as even tiny amounts of insulating residue, just a few nanometres thick, can prevent polymer deposition on the metal below.

In the current work, Blamire and his collaborators used a multi-layered stack of metal films in which each layer was only a few nanometres thick.

Skyrmions are stable, can have a diameter of just a few nanometres, and can be moved efficiently by electrical currents.

Lin's team has now come up with an alternative using quantum dots — light - sensitive, semiconducting particles just a few nanometres in diameter.

Only a few nanometre - sized γ platelets can be seen in the γ» precipitates.

Not exact matches

A map of the Americas measuring just a few hundred nanometres across has been created out of meticulously folded strands of DNA, using a new technique for manipulating molecules dubbed «DNA origami».

For now, such technology can cloak only objects with a surface area of a few square micrometres and a few hundred nanometres deep.

In a paper published in EPJ B, the authors study how the crystal periodicity affects the motion of ions whose energy belongs to a 1 to 2 MeV range, as they are transmitted through very thin crystals on the order of a few hundred nanometres, and how it impacts their angular distribution.

X-rays generated at that facility enable scientists to study and characterize the structure of edible fats at meso and micro levels (hundreds of nanometres to a few micrometres in size).

Electron microscopy reveals that strong capillary forces draw the lead up the tubes to a distance of a few tens of nanometres.

Metamaterials extend this concept with artificial structures that might be nanometres across for visible light, or as large as a few millimetres for microwave radiation.

It contains layers of gold electrodes just a few hundred nanometres thick, sandwiched between layers of polyimide plastic to form a «nanomembrane».

The pillars are only a few tens of nanometres apart, which lets the team cram tens of thousands of spots of colour across every centimetre of the surface.

The bonding properties of the saccharide coating can now be switched using this method: if the researchers irradiate their system with light with a wavelength of 365 nanometres, considerably fewer pathogenic bacteria cells can adhere to the synthetic surface.

Although the resolution of optical microscopy is limited to fractions of micrometres, developments in near - field microscopy had pushed this limit to a few tens of nanometres.