Sentences with phrase «many smaller beams»

Constructed by farmer and potter Hervey Brooks, the Pottery Shop still bears Brooks's initials on a small beam, upside down, near where Old Sturbridge Village's potters work today.

Smaller beams would control higher frequency waves, and larger beams would affect lower frequency waves.

They then directed a second laser beam through an instrument that splits the laser beam into many smaller beams, the number and angle of which depend on the radio frequency applied to the deflector.

But by squeezing the light into a smaller beam, more dots, or bits of information, can be stored.

Data enters the chip in the form of a laser beam split into four smaller beams.

But I'm seeing (and hopefully not being too optimistic here) a small beam of reason beginning to shine through the cloudy chaos drummed up by the noise machine.

tall, and the smaller beams coming off the main beam are 5 in.

Not exact matches

With fewer than 20 employees, Miller Value Partners is a small fraction of what Miller once ruled at Legg Mason, but he beams with pride as he shows a visitor the view of Baltimore's skyline from one window.

3Why do you stare from without at the very small particle that is in your brother's eye but do not become aware of and consider the beam of timber that is in your own eye?

This is why Atheists need to sweat even the small stuff like this cross / beam!!

Compact entry - level steered beam lasers deliver excellent coding flexibility and fast speeds while their small dimensions and lighter weight make them simple to fit into existing lines or tight spaces, coding in any orientation.

The ceremony is a tradition that includes a small evergreen tree being affixed to a 30 foot long beam that is hoisted into the air.

Now, having seen the beaming smile and buddy - movie embrace of David Cameron and Nick Clegg on the doorstep of No 10, a new, mischievous thought dawns: maybe a Con - Lib Dem coalition is precisely what Cameron, and a small circle around him, wanted all along.

The engineers direct a low power laser beam that actually moves the LIGO end mirror a small, but precise, amount.

Dr Sarri explains: «We thought that the best way to work out how gamma ray bursts are produced would be to mimic them in small - scale reproductions in the laboratory — reproducing a little source of these beams and look at how they evolve when left on their own.

The particle simulations show the best beam quality that can be expected at the extreme «accelerating gradient» — or rate of energy input — of up to 1.13 GV / m, while causing only a very small deterioration in quality of 3.6 %.

This small light packs in a lot of features, including high, low, and medium beam settings, an «SOS» flashing white light, a red flashing light, and a steady red beam.

The smallest cough or twitch can undermine the precision; moving even a centimeter can undo weeks of a radiation oncologist's preparations and calculations, dispatching the beam in the wrong direction.

Eventually small, inexpensive devices appear that can trade stocks and beam video around the world.

A cantilevered beam is anchored at only one end; a fractal is a shape that can be split into parts, each of which is a smaller, though sometimes not exact, copy of the larger structure.

Laser vaporization experiments with graphite in a supersonic cluster beam apparatus indicate that the smallest fullerene to form in substantial abundance is C28.

Unlike other techniques that depend on the ability to calculate the nuclear structure from the original data, which works best for small molecules, we only need to know the properties of our electron beam and experimental setup.»

Rather than try to open up the blood - brain barrier throughout the brain, Konofagou and her colleagues focused a beam to zap a small patch.

The condensate, which is made from around 4000 cooled rubidium atoms, is trapped inside the beams by the same forces used to create optical tweezers, which can manipulate particles on a small scale.

Such beams could provide new ways of manipulating matter on small scales.

An optical lens can deflect a light beam into a much smaller area of space; a time lens deflects a section of a light beam into a smaller chunk of time.

The gold particles on the plate act as nano - optics and make it possible to focus a beam of light below the diffraction limit so as to precisely measure something that is very small — right down to 20 nanometres.

In the new, supercontrolled chemical reaction, researchers trapped a single sodium atom in one optical tweezer — a device that snares small particles in a laser beam — and a cesium atom in another tweezer.

Each one sends different light beams toward Earth, where Rest can compare them and look for small differences to get a full perspective: «With light echoes, we can look at the same object from different directions.»

Switching to a small, lightweight plasma antenna would allow multiple narrow beams to selectively target several individuals at once.

To do so they made the atoms in the sample vibrate by shining a laser beam through a small hole in the photodetector, which was placed right on top of the sample.

The researchers focused the smaller laser beams through the cloud of ultracold atoms and found that each beam's focus — the point at which the beam's intensity was highest — attracted a single atom, essentially picking it out from the cloud and holding it in place.

Laser beams fired at LAGEOS were not sensitive enough to pinpoint variations in orbit smaller than a centimeter or so and were too imprecise to pick out the subtler differences in gravity.

As you head to the kitchen for your coffee, pause for a moment and contemplate the smoke detector operating silently overhead, a small quantity of the radioactive substance americium - 241 pouring out energy to create a thin beam of charged particles.

What they call «optical molasses» slows atoms to a crawl by focusing three pairs of laser beams on a small volume of space that also contains a magnetic field.

«We could make a very small version of SPS - Alpha and slightly modify the transmitter before launch to send radio signals rather than a microwave beam.

Their technique aims a high - powered laser beam upward at a small, low - mass craft.

He points out that the ring structure, which Lipson says is designed for both low mass and malleability, harnesses the optical force on a greater scale than the smaller vibrating beam did.

A platform tiled with ultrasound - emitting speakers can get small objects to hover, spin, move around and get reeled in as if pulled by a tractor beam (shown).

A beam of electrons fired at a lump of lead makes small particles of lead evaporate and recondense elsewhere in the chamber.

But the manipulation and mounting of crystals in the beam has traditionally been done by hand under a microscope with small needle - like cryoloops.

A device for precisely positioning small objects using acoustic waves has now been used to position fragile protein crystals a few micrometers or less in size in the path of a crystallography X-ray beam.

After being hit with laser beams, a small plastic pellet (sunlike object) emits x-rays, some of which bombard a pellet of silicon (blue and purple).

The laser beam the groups have dreamed up could drag an object the size of only a grain of salt or smaller, but experts say it could provide a new tool for manipulating tiny objects such as cells.

It uses a laser beam to excite molecules to glow, and a second beam to cancel out all fluorescence except that in a small nanometer - scale (billionths of a meter) volume.

By using as sources supersonic jets of hydrogen or helium containing small concentrations of heavier molecules we have been able to obtain molecular beams with kinetic energies of the heavy molecules well into the range above I electron volt.

DARPA is looking at more efficient technologies, like fiber lasers and liquid lasers, which could lead to smaller, more compact devices, while the Navy is researching a Free Electron Laser, an experimental technology that uses high - speed electrons to generate an extremely powerful focused beam of radiation.

«An electron vortex beam could manipulate nanomaterials just a few atoms thick,» says Verbeeck, which would help efforts to build ever - smaller electronic chips.

Researchers placed a speck of iron between two small conical diamonds and applied laser - beam heat and 200 gigapascals of pressure.

To peer inside the kerogen, they used small - angle neutron scattering, shooting a beam of subatomic neutrons through a substance and collecting information on the neutrons» behavior to determine the properties of the pores.