Sentences with phrase «micrometers wide»

The pixels are as small as 100 micrometers wide, giving the display a resolution of 300 dots per inch.

Those nanogrooves lie within larger troughs that measure about 1.5 micrometers deep and 3 micrometers wide, a good size to snag fog droplets from the air.

The detector attaches to a charged - particle microbeam and enables the delivery of radiation to an area less than 2 micrometers wide.

By unfolding into a cellular chain, clusters of cancer cells can slide through capillary tubes less than 10 micrometers wide, Sam Au of Harvard Medical School and colleagues report April 18 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Next, they placed latex particles a few micrometers wide on one side of the tank and applied an acoustic field using a vibrating ceramic plate.

To build their device, the team drilled an array of wells, each about 250 micrometers wide, into a silicon wafer.

Tubes are typically three micrometers wide and look like those in modern volcanic rock, which are thought to be made by microbes that consume the rock's nutrients.

Fine particulates (less than 2.5 micrometers wide, or about a quarter of the width of the smallest grain of pollen) are of greatest concern because they can penetrate deeply into the lungs to reach the body's innermost nooks and crannies.

But the crystal that Zhong and colleagues built is only about 10 micrometers long and 0.7 micrometers wide — about as wide as a bacterial cell.

It's not easy to create materials that contain repeating structures the size of a light wave, about half a micrometer wide.

In their study, scientists around Prof. Olivier Pertz from the Department of Biomedicine at the University of Basel gained novel insights into the regulation of directional cell migration: Using a special procedure, 20 micrometer wide lines were fabricated on glass thereby mimicking the connective tissue environment — creating a highway for cells.

The team of investigators dried a standard peptide solution for a day at room temperature to allow diphenylalanine to assemble into microtube structures, with individual tubes up to 1 millimeter long and 1 - 3 micrometer wide in diameter.

Not exact matches

A paper in Science Advances by Rice engineers Ashok Veeraraghavan, Jacob Robinson, Richard Baraniuk and their labs describes a wide - field microscope thinner than a credit card, small enough to sit on a fingertip and capable of micrometer resolution over a volume of several cubic millimeters.

Jacking up the current to five times the normal amperage one day, postdoc A. V. Palnichenko found that instead of some kin of buckyballs or nanotubes, a diamond grit consisting of hundreds of 10 - micrometer - wide diamonds and a smattering of larger, 100 - micrometer - wide ones had landed on the metal surface below, they report in the 11 November Nature.

The 10 - micrometer - wide microbe has a small eyespot, which Deisseroth describes as «kind of cute,» that spins around to detect light.

They then grouped the nanotubes into a cylinder - shaped forest, measuring about 50 micrometers tall and 1 millimeter wide, and centered the array within a 3 millimeter - wide, 7 - millimeter long microfluidic channel.

Pierre Wiltzius, a physicist at the University of Illinois, Urbana - Champaign, says that if researchers can further reduce the voltages and increase the temperature range, the effect might be useful in a wide variety of micrometer - scale technologies.

«Pushing a micrometers - wide particle through the air with a laser might be prone to distortion, if not outright failure, when even the slightest breeze wafts by,» GORT wrote.

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.

They are designed to operate fully exposed in the harsh conditions of the Array Operations Site, to survive strong winds, and to keep their smooth reflecting surfaces accurate to at least 25 micrometers (less than the typical thickness of a human hair) under a wide range of air temperature of -20 to +20 degrees.

In pioneering novel nano - systems, new instruments and methodologies are indispensable to cover a wide range of characterizations, from measurements of physical properties of individual nanomaterials to the evaluation of functionalities of nano - systems constructed at the micrometer and larger sizes through nanoarchitectonics.

As light streams through the HUAWEI P20's impressive wide aperture lenses, it strikes a large image sensor with a pixel size of 1.55 micrometers.

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