Sentences with phrase «micrometers thick»

The solar cells also experienced one quarter of the strain from the bending that a cell 3.5 micrometers thick would experience.

This gave them high capacitive density and high deformability while remaining only 1.2 micrometers thick.

Plutonium alpha phase metal samples are mirror finished 6mmx6mm squares 250 micrometers thick, sandwiched between platinum sample holders and transparent lithium - fluorite windows, and mounted in Z target copper panels.

Of 989 samples, he found five with holes and 17 with an extremely thin bone (less than 100 micrometers thick, compared to about 1500 micrometers in normal ears).

A one - ounce piece can be beaten into a translucent sheet five - millionths of an inch thick or drawn out into 50 miles of wire five micrometers thick — one - tenth the diameter of a human hair.

The new t - ray laser, described in the 9 May issue of Nature, is only about 10 micrometers thick, or a tenth the width of a human hair.

Thanks to its special physical properties, layers can be made that are only 100 micrometers thick.

By comparison, a human hair is between 50 and 70 micrometers thick.

Working at the National Ignition Facility, Smith and his colleagues aimed 176 lasers at a pellet of iron a few micrometers thick wrapped in a gold cylinder.

Successively printing about 1,500 layers, each 50 micrometers thick and deposited in a few seconds, the production - scale printer can build up a 500 - cubic - inch part in an hour.

The most important of these are two layers of tungsten oxide and nickel oxide, both about a third of a micrometer thick.

Assuming oil needs to be at least 1 micrometer thick to create a visible sheen, he explains, and assuming that an oil slick that thin has a 72 - hour lifespan at the surface, a leak of 14 gallons per day could only create a visible sheen 1.6 kilometers long by 91 meters wide.

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.

Regardless of the how thick the coating is, the film itself is approximately one micrometer thick.

Thanks to the extraordinary light absorption capability of the plastics, the active plastics layer is extremely thin - only a few tenth of micrometer thick, i.e. less than 1/1000 of silicon cell.

«Assuming that the perovskite thin film is just half a micrometer thick, the researchers calculate that a single lead - acid car battery could supply enough lead for the fabrication of more than 700 square meters of perovskite solar cells.

The solar photovoltaic cell is only one micrometer thick, which is far thinner than a human hair, while most thin - film solar cells are between two and four micrometers thick.

Not exact matches

A few years ago, his lab made graphene oxide — a functional form of graphene — and fabricated it into a multilayer, micrometer - thick, paper - like membrane.

The new electrode grid, developed by a team of researchers at the University of California San Diego and Massachusetts General Hospital, is about a thousand times thinner — 6 micrometers versus several millimeters thick — than clinical electrode grids.

In this week's Science Vukusic and his colleagues report that the bug's five - micrometer - thick scales were whiter than a child's baby tooth, which is encased in a millimeter - thick layer of white enamel.

And, unlike other stretchable transmission lines, whose widths can approach 640 micrometers (or.64 millimeters), the researchers» new stretchable integrated circuits are just 25 micrometers (or.025 millimeters) thick.

As the motorized stage moves backward, a razor - sharp blade peels away a 70 - micrometer - thick slice of tissue — like prosciutto at the deli counter, only far thinner.

Lots of the energy is absorbed in a layer 1 - 10 micrometers in thickness — 1000 - 10000 molecules thick — at the very surface, where it causes the water to evaporate rather than heating the bulk.