Sentences with phrase «in picoseconds»

For ultrafast operation of such nano - devices, generation of spin current in picoseconds — one trillionth of a second — a time - scale that is difficult to achieve using electrical circuits, is highly desired,» Cahill added.

Circuits have switching times in picoseconds, or trillionths of a second.

«In contrast to DRAM or Flash, the physical limit of the write time for quantum dots is in the picosecond range,» he says.

The thermal excitation in the ferromagnetic layer produces spin current in the adjacent nonmagnetic layer in a picosecond timescale.

All of them are shown to be affected by a single protein in their picosecond hydrogen bond dynamics

Not exact matches

Picosecond laser damage performance assessment of multilayer dielectric gratings in vacuum

The role of defects in laser - induced modifications of silica coatings and fused silica using picosecond pulses at 1053 nm: II.

Observation of Betatron X-Ray Radiation in a Self - Modulated Laser Wakefield Accelerator Driven with Picosecond Laser Pulses

One type of laser that's particularly suited for quantum dots is a mode - locked laser, which passively generates ultrashort pulses less than one picosecond in duration.

And an important property of bottom quarks makes them impossible to stockpile: They wink out of existence just 1 picosecond after they're created, or in about the time it takes light to travel half the length of a single grain of salt.

«The explanation is, in brief, that in metals, irradiation produces on picosecond time scales a liquid - like zone, which during the cooling - down phase recombines much of the initially produced damage, leading to a factor of 1/3 reduction in damage,» says Professor Kai Nordlund who was in lead of the team on search for more accurate predictions of usability of materials in nuclear environments, that now present their results freshly in Nature Communications.

Chemical reactions take place so rapidly — often within picoseconds, or a trillionth of a second — that chemists expect intermediate steps in the reaction to be too brief to observe.

When carbon dioxide dissolves in water, carbonic acid forms, which has a very short lifetime — typically around 30 picoseconds — before dissociating into protons and bicarbonate ions.

Only lasers firing in femtosecond bursts — like a strobe flashing every thousandth of a picosecond — can capture the fleeting molecular structures that reacting chemicals form on their way to a final product.

The researchers fixed a three centimetre long diamond strip, just 0.3 millimetre thick, in a specimen holder and triggered a shock wave with a brief flash from a powerful infrared laser that hit the narrow edge of the diamond; this pulse lasted 0.15 billionths of a second (150 picoseconds) and reached a power level of up to 12 trillion watts (12 terawatts) per square centimetre.

In contrast, the relaxation in other nuclear coordinates was on a much longer time scale (2 to 10 picoseconds) and depended critically on cluster sizIn contrast, the relaxation in other nuclear coordinates was on a much longer time scale (2 to 10 picoseconds) and depended critically on cluster sizin other nuclear coordinates was on a much longer time scale (2 to 10 picoseconds) and depended critically on cluster size.

Despite 70 years of trying, scientists still can not fully explain how a bubble of air in water focuses acoustic energy a trillionfold to spit out picosecond bursts of ultraviolet radiation.

To understand these complex and omnipresent phenomena in nature, researchers recently conducted experiments involving the propagation of light waves, and leading to the formation of ultrafast pulses on a picosecond timescale (a millionth of a millionth of a second).

A field of intense picosecond light pulses generated in an optical fiber.

In one picosecond, the car would make one thousandth of the trip — about 2.8 miles, or all the way to East Los Angeles.

«According to our theoretical calculations, the condensate forms in only a picosecond,» says doctoral student Antti Moilanen.

Determining the exact distances between telescopes becomes a matter of the accuracy with which these time lapses can be measured — a process in which every picosecond, or trillionth of a second, counts.

The angles are set by aligning all the nitrogen molecules in the sample with a somewhat weaker laser pulse a few picoseconds (1012 second) before the imaging pulse arrives.

Prof. C David Wright, an expert in electronic engineering and co-author of the study said: «This device is able carry out all the basic functions you'd associate with the traditional abacus — addition, subtraction, multiplication and division — what's more it can do this using picosecond (one - thousandth of a billionth of a second) light pulses.»

Beginning in the 1990s, using the National Synchrotron Light Source (Brookhaven National Laboratory), the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (Grenoble, France), and the BioCARS facility at the Advanced Photon Source (Argonne National Laboratory), they reduced time resolution from milliseconds to nanoseconds to 100 picoseconds.

This is chiefly due to the fact that the residual networks involved in this process are vast and complex, also the physical interactions that sustain these networks occur on an atomistic level and a picosecond timescale.

High - end products like the LightHUB ® laser beam combiner, the LedHUB ® highpower LED light engine as well as the QuixX ® picosecond pulsed diode laser serve demanding applications in biotechnology, microscopy and many more.

He added, «I think there is a very large unexplored space in terms of using electrons at the picosecond (trillionths of a second) and nanosecond (billionths off a second) time scales to directly image materials.»

Of course no single measurement will ever be in balance (except for that picosecond when it crosses zero) in this system.

But we're talking here about very very small molecules that are way up high up in the sky performing these steps in time on the order of 100 picoseconds (10 GHz for you nerds out there).