Sentences with phrase «in vacuum chambers»

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.

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

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.

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.

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).

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

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

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.

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 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.

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).

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 the intrinsic defects, the researchers used a process called «atomic layer deposition,» placing the graphene membrane in a vacuum chamber, then pulsing in a hafnium - containing chemical that does not normally interact with graphene.

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.

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.

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.

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.

I initially pointed out that satellite makers do thermal testing of the satellites in a vacuum chamber whose walls are cooled by liquid nitrogen to simulate the heat - transfer conditions of space: no conductive / convective transfer, and virtually no ambient thermal radiation.

Put two orbs (or something like that) in a vacuum chamber.

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

Not exact matches

We manufacture and sell automatic baggers, shrink wrap sealers and heat tunnels, skin packaging equipment, vacuum sealers in snorkel and chamber models, modified atmosphere machines with gas flush, medical heat sealers, and flow wrappers.

The cylinder is a vacuum chamber that simulates conditions in space.

«Everything happens in a small vacuum chamber where we have a very dilute vapor of atoms which are cooled close to absolute zero,» Lukin said.

Recently, the telescope and instruments completed a 100 - day test in a giant vacuum chamber at Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas.

The experiment, housed in a laboratory adjacent to his office at the University of Washington, is a supercooled, magnetized vacuum chamber equipped with a sensitive detector that listens for the microwave «ping» of passing particles called axions.

A 64.5 - foot - wide test version of the Sunjammer solar sail sits unfurled in a large vacuum chamber during tests at NASA's Plum Brook facility in Ohio.

Bruce Kane at the University of Maryland in College Park sprayed charged graphene flakes a micron wide into a vacuum chamber.

To take an up - close look at the gold nanoparticles in action, the researchers made a vacuum - tight microfluidic chamber by pressing two silicon - nitride semiconductor chips together with a 150 - nanometer spacer in between.

The «teats» are actually receptacles containing aluminium, gallium and arsenic; the «udders» are high - vacuum reaction chambers in which ultrathin layers of crystal are grown on circular wafers of gallium arsenide, 75 or 100 millimetres across.

Each LIGO interferometer has two 4 - kilometer - long arms with mirrors at either end, housed in a giant vacuum chamber.

Hudson's laboratory used laser light to cool tiny amounts of the reactant atoms and molecules to an extremely low temperature — one one - thousandth of a degree above absolute zero — and then levitate them in a space smaller than the width of a human hair, inside of a vacuum chamber.

Secondly, the design leads to small — aperture vacuum chambers that result in low vacuum conductance and the need for distributed pumping as well as for the distributed absorption of heat deposited by the synchrotron radiation.

An electron beam enters the vacuum chamber and melts the particles in a pattern as dictated by a CAD file.

Typically, a RGA is connected to a researcher's high - vacuum chamber, with the probe end of the RGA inside the vacuum chamber, and the support electronics hanging outside in the room.

They also have been tested successfully in a JPL thermal vacuum chamber, with total vacuum conditions and temperatures of minus 76 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 60 degrees Celsius) to simulate the conditions of space.

But the vacuum chamber was not designed to allow lasers in; it was surrounded by metal mesh and intended for thermal ionization, in an oven.

For example, in 1965 a technician inside a vacuum chamber at Johnson Space Center in Houston accidentally depressurized his space suit by disrupting a hose.

NIST's cold - atom clock relies on about 1 million rubidium atoms held in a small glass vacuum chamber.

To that end the researchers utilized a pair of ytterbium ions as quantum bits, or qubits, each confined to a private vacuum chamber about a meter apart in an experimental system at the Joint Quantum Institute of the University of Maryland and the National Institute of Standards and Technology.

In the original experiments, a palladium plate inside a vacuum chamber was saturated with deuterium gas.

Both LIGO and VIRGO are the world's largest precision optical instruments and second - largest vacuum chambers (only the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland surpasses them).

The strontium atoms in each standard are isolated from the environment and from one another: cooled to a temperature below 10 microkelvins, they are situated inside an ultrahigh vacuum chamber and immobilized in a specially constructed optical trap generated by the beam of a supplementary laser.