Sentences with word «nanometer»

The haze results from chemical reactions in the upper atmosphere, where ultraviolet radiation from the sun ionizes nitrogen and methane, which react to form tiny hydrocarbon particles tens of nanometers in diameter.

The future of data storage is likely to be found in nanometer scale, stable magnetic whirls called skyrmions, which behave like particles in magnetic thin films.

About Blog his inter-disciplinary, internationally - reviewed research journal covers all aspects of nanometer scale science and technology.

They're employing photosensitive quantum dots — semiconducting particles only a few nanometers wide that have optical and electronic properties — as a catalyst.

These pores are just a few nanometers across — too small for bacterial or viral cells to squeeze through, but wide enough for sweat to escape.

Other labs had already used fragments of polymers to make tiny sacks hundreds of nanometers across.

Boland and colleagues showed for the first time that, in films of nanocrystalline copper just tens of nanometers thick, peaks and dips appear where misaligned grains meet.

For better understanding of the inferior performance in fuel cells, morphology and ion conductive structure were investigated at nanometer scale by a material sensitive, conductive AFM.

Nevertheless, Intel pushes forward with plans to launch its third processor family based on the 14 - nanometer process in the not - too - distant future.

Although valves and pumps exist to control flow in microfluidic channels, they are not easy to miniaturize further for use on nanometer levels, says Berkeley mechanical engineer Arun Majumdar.

FRET (Forster Resonance Energy Transfer) is a powerful molecular biology tool that has been used for detecting conformational dynamics of macro-molecules such as DNA, RNA and proteins with nanometer resolution.

Nonetheless, it's understandable why Qualcomm chose TSMC, since the Taiwanese firm succeeded in completing the 7 - nanometer chip technology ahead of Samsung.

The device captured the internal structure of electronic waves trapped in short sections, just several nanometers long, of nanotubes partially suspended above an atomically flat gold surface.

According to Dr. Yasuda, the successful observations of structural dynamics in live neurons present the possibility of visualizing the morphology of synapses at nanometer resolution in real time in the near future.

Because «blinking» is precisely tunable, molecules that are only nanometers apart from each other can be distinguished — at the higher resolution end of super-resolution.

TSMC won over Apple largely because of its 10 - nanometer manufacturing process.

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«When shallow defects align, diamonds shine for unprecedented quantum sensitivity: Researchers demonstrate a new way to produce high - density clusters of aligned quantum sensors in diamond just nanometers from the surface, offering submolecular sensitivity to microscopy like never before.»

Betzig's team also reports in the Science paper that they can boost the spatial resolution of SIM to 84 nanometers by imaging with a commercially available microscope objective with an ultra-high numerical aperture.

New evidence, in the form of diamonds several nanometers wide, supports a theory proposed last year that a comet collision or a similar explosive event threw up debris and caused the cooling.

Swapping in the bigger ion forces the crystal to form in sheets just nanometers thick, which stack on top of each other like pages in a book, says chemist Aditya Mohite of Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico.

A new process uses a cerium - based material made into nanometer - sized particles with a palladium catalyst to produce cyclohexanone, a key ingredient in the production of nylon.

In the brown section of the hornet's abdomen, the layers of cuticle that make up the exoskeleton are embossed with grooves about 160 nanometers high.

Since the high pressure produced by the laser only lasts a split second, the resulting diamonds are extremely small — only nanometers in size.

If shrunk to nanometer levels, the tape measure could adopt a superposition of twisting both left and right.

Every breath we take contains ultra fine toxic nano particulates in the 10 nanometer range.

While examining the capabilities of optical microscopes to inspect semiconductors during manufacturing, I started to wonder if there was a way to get images with much higher spatial resolution than 250 nanometers using conventional lenses.

They use sub-100 nanometer particles in low - enough concentrations that they don't limit flow but still make efficient use of their heat - transfer and storage properties.

TEGRA «Parker» is using a 16 - nanometer FinFET process.

«Our material is a layered compound, meaning it is a stack of 2D layers of perovskites with nanometer thickness (like a stack of sheets), and the 2D perovskite layers are separated by thin organic layers,» said Jean - Christophe Blancon, lead author on a paper out today in the journal Science's First Release distribution.

(A nanometer is one billionth of a meter.)

Led by Andrei Faraon, assistant professor of applied physics and materials science in the Division of Engineering and Applied Science and a member of the Kavli Nanoscience Institute, the team developed silicon oxide and aluminum surfaces studded with tens of millions of tiny silicon posts, each just hundreds of nanometers tall.

The light - absorbing molecules break off from the chains when exposed to ultraviolet light at 350 nanometers wavelength, triggering degradation of the plastics.

«Perhaps most importantly, since the sensor is an atomic - scale defect that could be contained within nanometer - scale particles of diamond, you can imagine using this system as a thermometer in challenging environments such as living cells or microfluidic circuits.»

The mapping was achieved without disturbing the native environment of the neuron, by tagging alpha - synuclein with an enzyme — APEX — that allowed proteins less than 10 nanometers away from synuclein to be marked with a trackable fingerprint.

Starting from small nanometer length scales, this traffic jam slowly grows outwards across the entire material.

In order to demonstrate the broad scale applicability of this new method, oxide or hydroxide nanoparticles have been prepared from representative elements from across the periodic table to rapidly produce nanometer sized oxides or hydroxides.

If the satellites are moving together or apart at as little as 150 nanometers per second, the GRACE scientists can see it.

The analysis of corneal surface nanopatterns in 23 insect orders has been performed by means of atomic force microscopy with resolution up to single nanometers.

The detection of magnetic fields is carried out with the help of a so called nitrogen vacancy center (NV), located approximately 10 nanometers below the surface of the diamond tip.

The research focuses on guiding light through nanometer - thick metal films — about a thousand times thinner than a human hair — to propagate light with plasmon waves, a cumulative electron oscillation.

Atomic force microscopy and X-ray diffraction experiments have shown that the terminal blocks of these polymers assemble in nanometer spheres, distributed in a brush - polymer matrix.

Lastly, with the new iPhone, Apple may move to a 10 - nanometer fabrication process, allowing the company to produce a mobile chipset that's faster and more energy efficient than the company's current silicon.

But because the conducting part of this material, at its outermost edge, measured only a few nanometers thin — thousands of times thinner than the X-ray beam's focus — it was difficult to positively identify all of the material's electronic properties.

It measures only 5.6 nanometers square and represents the largest number of atomic manipulations ever achieved at room temperature.