Sentences with phrase «micrometers down»

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.

At Cornell University, we developed and tested a new detector for electron microscopes that enables quantitative measurements of electric and magnetic fields from micrometers down to atomic resolution.

Not exact matches

«We used magnetic beads of 3 micrometers in diameter to pull down the exosomes in plasma samples,» Zeng said.

But there's a catch: Dragged down by interactions with the metal and the insulator, most surface plasmons wane within a few micrometers — too short a distance to make them useful.

And NIF doesn't release the cost of their pellets and they're making them on - site there, but [there are] other people making similar pellets that have to [be] exquisitely machined, you know, down to micrometers, and right now the estimates are, they're you know, in the order of about a million dollars a pellet.

Barberet worked with Michal Pomorski at CEA - LIST, who created the ultra-thin diamond sensor by slicing down and then plasma etching a commercially available, single - crystal diamond to about 1 micrometer thick.

«The method [of detection] was to weigh the air filters,» Perera says, «and these captured only the bigger particles, not the ones down to one or two micrometers [about one - fiftieth the width of a human hair].

As a result, the EPA began to monitor and regulate particles as small as 10 micrometers, also called microns, in 1987, but did not get down to the level of 2.5 microns, as Perera had urged, until 1997, when standards were tightened.

Stanford researchers are using spiky nanoparticles of graphene - coated nickel to create a lithium - ion battery that shuts down when it's too hot, then quickly restarts when it cools (1µ = 1 micrometer).

When scaling down robots to the micrometer scale for tiny tasks such as incising tissue and puncturing retinal veins, minimalism is key.