Sentences with phrase «just quadrillionths»

In 1996, Berkeley Lab also logged the first demonstration of X-ray pulses lasting just quadrillionths of a second with a technique known as «inverse Compton scattering,» the report notes.

X-ray free - electron lasers, first realized a decade ago, produce the brightest X-rays on the planet, and scientists tap into these unique X-rays to explore matter at the atomic scale and observe processes that occur in just quadrillionths of a second.

Using high - affinity anti-interferon - antibodies isolated from patients with a syndrome called APECED, the researchers were able to detect interferon - at attomolar concentrations, equivalent to just quadrillionths of a gram per milliliter of sample.

Not exact matches

The high - energy optical lasers at MEC combined with LCLS's X-ray pulses — which last just femtoseconds, or quadrillionths of a second — allowed the scientists to directly measure the chemical reaction.

The research team found a new mechanism explaining how this reaction can occur in just tens of femtoseconds (quadrillionths of a second), before other competing effects can steal away their energy.