Miniaturization refers to the process of making something smaller in size while maintaining its functionality. It involves reducing the size of objects, components, or systems while still ensuring that they work the way they are supposed to.
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Google's smartwatch platform made its on - stage debut at Google IO with the company calling it a «new phase
in miniaturization of technology.»
Why it matters: The demand
for miniaturization of electronic devices will benefit from a more in - depth understanding of nanostructured materials.
Our microfluidic platform delivers precise control over the cellular microenvironment and beneficially
through miniaturization, maximizes use of precious limited human cancer samples.
For example, toxins in your blood (that have been purified due to the damaged liver) can continue to circulate around the body, and these toxins can lead to hair damage and hair
follicle miniaturization.
The next generation of electronic devices will require
further miniaturization of their components, and it will not be long before chip manufacturers go below 10 nanometres.
Right now, most of these devices seem to tethered to a phone or other mobile device, but
as miniaturization continues this tethering will no longer be required.
Lakdawalla predicts that private companies will continue to work
on miniaturization of technology during 2015 and take steps toward getting to the moon.
As of now, the driving forces of the new technology are broader bandwidth,
steady miniaturization of components and advances in software.
Glaw, who has been going to Madagascar to research its ever - expanding list of amphibians and reptiles for a quarter century, said that B. micra may represent the limit of
miniaturization possible for a vertebrate with complex eyes, but said it's impossible to know for sure since each time scientists have proclaimed the discovery of the tiniest one yet, another, tinier species appears.
One promising idea is to carry out the conversion at high frequency,
enabling miniaturization and integration of components, and hopefully, an exponential drop in costs, just as has happened with computer chips, Majumdar said.
«Given the current needs in thermal management and
device miniaturization in many nano - and microelectronics, this study provides a new degree of freedom to play and improve thermal transport.»
The trend in electronics
toward miniaturization squeezes more chips into ever smaller devices, leading to intense heat buildup.
The
increasing miniaturization in electronics will result in components which consist of only a few molecules, or even just one molecule.
The research appear as the cover article of the March 7 issue of a U.K. journal, Lab on a Chip, which is a peer - reviewed scientific journal publishing primary research and review articles on any aspect of
miniaturization at the micro and nano scale.
This work, which was the result of a long - term collaboration with teams in Bristol and Singapore, could lead to
extreme miniaturization of light guidance and open the way to applications for sensors, for instance in photovoltaics, and in telecommunications.
Lack of a membrane
permits miniaturization for use in biomedicine or other remote applications where self - sustaining systems are needed.
Why It Matters: Future materials that will decrease energy consumption and waste associated with manufacturing, detect harmful contaminants in foods and medicines, and enable the
ultimate miniaturization of complex electronic devices will be composed of clusters containing different numbers and types of atoms.
The typical excuse for the gargantuan devices that existed these past few years was that the
necessary miniaturization of technology «wasn't there yet.»
This
same miniaturization of electronic systems is also creating new opportunities in biotechnology and biophysics.
Handheld sensors, often found in science fiction stories as a way of collecting a broad spectrum of data with a single device, are becoming real devices through the
continuous miniaturization of technology.
Electronic systems operating on the level of individual atoms would seem to be the natural consequence of efforts to achieve ever -
greater miniaturization.
That advance would allow Intel to shrink the smallest dimension of its transistors from today's 65 nanometers to a svelte 45 nanometers, keeping the furious pace of
transistor miniaturization on its expected track.
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Additional miniaturization could ultimately result in a handheld device with stability orders of magnitude better than compact atomic clocks available today,» Kotru says.
The
recent miniaturization of neuronal recording gear allowed Margoliash's team to study the activity of individual brain cells in birds that were relatively free to move about and behave naturally.
Yulia has an extensive expertise in the assay development,
assay miniaturization, high throughput screening (HTS), automation and data analysis.
This steady
miniaturization led some dinosaurs to find ways to better adapt for the long - term survival of their line
And
since miniaturization is the whole schtick of Ant - Man, we get to gee Marvel's famous and often seamless special effects, this time dealing with the world of bugs the size of elephants, carpet fibers like great stalks of corn and an army of various ants that help Lang defeat as many bad guys as possible.
In addition, both high processing performance and high integration densities are required to
achieve miniaturization and higher efficiency in the motors and inverters used in electric vehicles (EV) and plug - in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEV).
The question many people are asking is» Is
miniaturization harmful» and «should we be making our tiny dog breeds even tinier?»
One of the pitfalls
attending miniaturization of a larger breed is loss of substance often accompanied by a tendency towards toyishness.
On display alongside Duchamp's
ingenious miniaturization of his entire oeuvre are works by Richard Artschwager, Louise Bourgeois, Sophie Calle, Peter Fischli and David Weiss, Nan Goldin, Andreas Gursky, Yayoi Kusama, Bruce Nauman, Sigmar Polke, Charles Ray, Gerhard Richter, Rosemarie Trockel, Lawrence Weiner, Rachel Whiteread, and a glittering host of others.
The new Mavic Air, priced at just $ 799, is a perfect example of DJI's multi-year efforts in
hardware miniaturization and equally impressive software automation.
It was previously an expensive, cumbersome technology that couldn't be found on wireless headphones, but that changed a few years ago with advances in battery life and
circuit miniaturization.