Sentences with phrase «just nanometres»

Today, shrunk to just nanometres across and carved into beds of silicon, these electrical on - off switches mass in their billions on every single computer chip.

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».

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

Measuring just 3 by 4 nanometres, around 20,000 of the cars could be parked on the tip of a human hair.

Here, cloud formation depends partly on trace gases condensing to form particles just 1 nanometre across, which can then grow large enough to act as CCNs.

Many bacteria swim using flagella — long tails that are attached to tiny motors made of proteins, just tens of nanometres wide.

Bacteria use molecular motors just tens of nanometres wide to spin a tail (or «flagellum») that pushes them through their habitat.

The most complex molecular knot ever tied is just 20 nanometres long, and might be used to make innovative new materials

The smallest wire they have observed is about 1.2 nanometres across — just two to three atoms.

Selecta has developed a nanoparticle delivery system in which an immune - modifying compound is contained in biodegradable plastic particles just 150 nanometres across.

And these strips were just 1.5 nanometres wide, allowing any transistors built on them to be ultra-tiny (Nature Physics, doi.org/jtg).

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

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.

After cutting a thin section from one of the carbon globules of the meteorite, they used a jet of argon ions to erode the slice until it was just 50 nanometres thick — a process known as ion milling — and examined it under an electron microscope.

For the experiment, the team built a tiny battery with a lithium - cobalt anode and a cathode made from tin oxide nanowires just 200 nanometres wide.

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

Drivers will use electrons from the tip of a scanning tunnelling microscope (STM) to help jolt their molecules along, typically by just 0.3 nano - metres each time — making 100 nanometres «a pretty long distance», notes physicist Leonhard Grill of the University of Graz, Austria, who co-leads a US — Austrian team in the race.

That could produce high - temperature superconductivity in a single copper - oxide layer just 0.66 nanometres thick.

Creating a voltage between them allowed current to flow between the two perpendicular electrodes — separated from each other by just 20 nanometres, through the single phosphorus atom, which acted as a transistor.

The wavelength range in which a given semiconductor can emit light — also known as its bandwidth — is typically limited in the range of just tens of nanometres.

Tosi said the design sidesteps a challenge that all spin - based silicon qubits were expected to face as teams begin building larger and larger arrays of qubits: the need to space them at a distance of only 10 - 20 nanometres, or just 50 atoms apart.

In May, they imaged gold nanoparticles at a resolution of just 97 nanometres, to show that scattering lenses can image below the 200 - nanometre limit of conventional optical lenses (Physical Review Letters, DOI: 10.1103 / PhysRevLett.106.193905).

Each tiny ink dot used to print each letter would have to be reduced to the size of just 1000 atoms, he calculated — a square with sides of just 9 nanometres.

Even just a couple of nanometres out of spec can change the functionality from transparent to reflective, and ultimately customer dissatisfaction.

Now researchers at ETH Zurich have designed a memristor device out of perovskite just 5 nanometres thick that has three stable resistive states, which means it can encode data as 0,1 and 2, or a «trit» as opposed to a «bit.»

«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.