Sentences with phrase «in a vacuum chamber»

However, the ion beam technique works only in a vacuum chamber, and laser samples usually must be specially prepared and must fit into the laser rig.

During the freeze - drying process, whole foods are put in a vacuum chamber in below - freezing temperatures until the moisture is removed, which results in a highly concentrated source of nutrients.

This is a schematic of an optical tweezer used in a vacuum chamber by Purdue University researchers, who controlled the «electron spin» of a levitated nanodiamond.

The 1,025 - pound spacecraft is currently sitting in a vacuum chamber at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland, where it is undergoing tests before being shipped to Kennedy Space Center to begin launch preparations.

The team fired a laser at a solid thorium - 229 target in a vacuum chamber.

The NASA experiment took place in a vacuum chamber with two connected compartments.

You do need to cycle for the 30 minutes you spend lying in a vacuum chamber (wearing a weird - looking balloon - like skirt) and choccie, chips, soft drink and alcohol are off the menu.

So he isolated a single ytterbium atom in a vacuum chamber, shined a laser at it, and focused in on the resulting 450 - nanometer gap of darkness that landed on his digital image sensor.

Customers experienced reduced container failures in their vacuum chambers, where whey is recovered from the cheese, and 640s that were dropped or bumped into while being material handled didn't burst apart like they did when held together with banding.

In the weightlessness of orbit, a BEC should hover for up to 10 seconds before lingering gas in the vacuum chamber warms it up, Sackett says, allowing time for measurements that can't be made on Earth.

To test theories such as general relativity, the strength of gravity is measured precisely using ensembles of supercold atoms falling in a vacuum chamber.

To do so, University of California, Berkeley, physicists Charles Piskoti and Alex Zettl, along with chemist Jeff Yarger, vaporized carbon in a vacuum chamber containing a whiff of helium.

In the horizontal Bridgeman method then used to produce such crystals, the source materialsin this case, gallium metal and phosphorouswere melted in a 1,500 Celsius, hydrogen - oxygen - fueled furnace and reacted on quartz in a vacuum chamber.

Most of them are produced in vacuum chambers that use tons of energy to deposit thin layers of semiconductor materials onto a flawless wafer.

Conventional sputtering processes involve bombarding a solid object such as an ingot of titanium, referred to as the target, with energy - rich ions in a vacuum chamber.

The transistor represents a major advance but has a ways to go — even in a vacuum chamber, it still degraded within a few minutes.

Chefs first seal the food in special plastic bags, often in a vacuum chamber (sous vide is French for «under vacuum») but sometimes with air or other gases.

Pulickel Ajayan and Sumio Iijima of NEC's Fundamental Research Laboratories in Tsukuba put some nanotubes in a vacuum chamber and deposited lead particles on them using a technique called electron beam evaporation.

This spreads quickly in a vacuum chamber and is deposited on a substrate where it forms a thin layer.

One type of laser was used to «trap» and levitate the nanoparticle in a vacuum chamber, and another was used to monitor the electron spin.

The researchers said that their method of attaining fusion in a vacuum chamber can be replicated with «100 per cent accuracy», but the reports have failed to convince the sceptics.

They rapidly mixed ethene and chlorine in a vacuum chamber, and then immediately allowed the mixture to expand through a narrow aperture.

Here, H. M.'s brain sits in its purpose - built mold, which will be filled with liquid gelatin and set in a vacuum chamber.

Until now, thin - film solar cells have been made in vacuum chambers — the semiconductor materials are placed on the glass or metal and then air is pumped out of the chamber, creating pressure that fuses the materials.

Nanoalloys of platinum (grey) and yttrium (blue) are created using sputtering in a vacuum chamber.

About 1 million cold rubidium atoms are held in a vacuum chamber in the lower left of the photo.

This problem has now been solved by Chalmers researchers by combining the metals in a vacuum chamber using a technique called sputtering.

This involves heating a sample of a precursor compound at several hundred °C elsius for only a few milliseconds in a vacuum chamber.

For years experts doubted it: Quantum phenomena typically reveal themselves only in lab settings, in vacuum chambers chilled to near absolute zero.

Fox and Fiksel used two very powerful lasers to zap two tiny pieces of plastic in a vacuum chamber to 10 million degrees and create two colliding plumes of extremely hot plasma.

Already aboard are Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway, Jessica Chastain, Casey Affleck, Topher Grace, Michael Caine, Mackenzie Foy, Wes Bentley, John Lithgow, Ellen Burstyn, Bill Irwin and Timothee Chalamet, who are all currently locked in a vacuum chamber lest they breathe a word of the film's actual plot or character details to the press.

That's because Waterfi physically opens your device, while Liquipel just covers it with a gas that turns solid in a vacuum chamber and binds to the device.

While this technology was originally developed for the detection of leaks in a vacuum chamber, with some minor modification and training, ConEd's employees have successfully used it for SF6 leak detection.

Then they put the wafer in a vacuum chamber in order to evaporate the water away leaving a film of protein.»

For this particular research, the scientists tested samples of common salt — sodium chloride — along with mixtures of salt and water, in their vacuum chamber at Europa's chilly surface temperature of minus 280 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 173 Celsius).

«He was using the laser to ionise a target in a vacuum chamber.»

The process involves precision - heating crucibles containing elements placed in a vacuum chamber.

You lie in a vacuum chamber, wearing a strange, balloon - like skirt, cycling for 30 minutes (sorry, there is some exercise involved), while your metabolism and circulation is stimulated.

In the new study, researchers placed tiny particles of silicon carbide (one represented by the group of tan molecules in this artist's concept) covered with graphite (hexagonal networks of gray atoms) in a vacuum chamber that duplicated the deep - space conditions surrounding many stars (temperatures between 900 and 1500 kelvins and pressures less than one - billionth that found at Earth's surface).