Sentences with phrase «micrometers across»

It then combines with pollutants from combustion — mainly nitrogen oxides and sulfates from vehicles, power plants and industrial processes — to create tiny solid particles, or aerosols, no more than 2.5 micrometers across, about 1/30 the width of a human hair.

[5] The first electronic paper, called Gyricon, consisted of polyethylene spheres between 75 and 106 micrometers across.

One early version of electronic paper consists of a sheet of very small transparent capsules, each about 40 micrometers across.

In addition, the liquid channels are normally more than 5 micrometers across, making them too large to be useful in energy conversion and catalysis.

They have to neatly pack a several meter - long thread of genetic material into a nucleus that measures only five micrometers across.

The company's first chips, he says, were made in a semiconductor fabrication facility from 1995, in which the smallest features that could be inscribed on chips were 0.35 micrometers across.

Using high - energy x-rays to produce an MRI - like scan of the palm - of - your - hand - sized rock that holds the 305 - million - year - old fossil, researchers were able to discern anatomical details as small as 5 micrometers across.

A device about the size of a soda can, it can register objects as small as two micrometers across.

The problem is that each «tree ring» - analogue is only a few micrometers across, which is why they are extremely challenging to analyse in detail,» says Dr. David Budd at the Department of Earth Sciences, Uppsala University.

Simple sensors can tell a machine whether it is in contact with something, but detectors that also sense texture tend either to be too complicated and delicate for commercial use or lack the spatial resolution needed to detect details dozens of micrometers across.

This counterintuitive material is made up of a grid of hollow 3 - D crosses — shaped like six - way pipe fittings — mere micrometers across.

To do so, they etched the surfaces to resemble a bed of nails, with the heads of the nails — each 20 micrometers across — facing up.

Researchers studying a fossil specimen of the trilobite Triarthrus eatoni spotted something odd just next to the animal's head: a collection of small (about 200 micrometers across), round objects (in light blue, above).

It then combines with pollutants from combustion — mainly nitrogen oxides and sulfates from vehicles, power plants and industrial processes — to create tiny solid particles, or aerosols, no more than 2.5 micrometers across, about 1/30 the width of a human hair.

This system works by trapping a cellulose particle that's mere micrometers across in a beam of nearly invisible laser light.

Each dust particle is only about 0.1 micrometer across (roughly the size of particles in cigarette smoke), but lots of them block the 27,000 light - years between Earth and the galaxy's center.

Not exact matches

To concentrate the energy of laser light to an even finer area, the team patterned aluminum dots of various sizes, from tens of micrometers down to 30 nanometers, across the surface of silicon, silicon germanium alloy, gallium arsenide, gallium nitride, and sapphire.

Because the blood in the 150 - micrometer - long embryonic heart is so viscous, the speed and turbulence of the blood causes the vessel walls to experience a high shear stress — like a skateboarder would experience upon falling and sliding across pavement.

By simply switching to a 2005 semiconductor fabrication, the company can produce chips with features just 0.065 micrometers, or 65 nanometers, across, enabling them to cram more than 1 billion ion sensors on each chip.

The product of decades of trial and error by Willett and his collaborators, it was made from a flake of gallium arsenide so pure, he said, that electrons inside could sense one another's presence across vast micrometers of distance.

As such, it represents the actual temperature of the water across a very small depth of approximately 20 micrometers....»