Sentences with phrase «nanometer finfet»

This enables new opto - electronic devices that are just one nanometer thick, such as ultra-small optical switches, detectors and sensors.

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.

They managed to switch this plasmon propagation on and off, simply by applying an electrical voltage, demonstrating the control of light guided in channels smaller than one nanometer.

This special kind of lasers consists of tailor made semiconductor layers on a nanometer scale.

So Kats and his colleagues deposited a 150 - nanometer - thick layer of vanadium dioxide onto a wafer of sapphire.

It uses a very sharp metallic tip, placed extremely close to the sample surface-less than a tenth of a nanometer away.

The team began their work by fabricating the electrodes of the SET, which were separated by a nanometer scale gap, with an electroless gold - plating technique.

It overcomes a significant barrier in the field by enabling the manipulation and patterning of micro - or nanometer sized protein crystals using low power, biocompatible acoustic waves.»

Dekker's group skirted the issue by making their SET so tinyone nanometer wide and 20 nanometers longthat heat fluctuations proved irrelevant.

(A nanometer is one billionth of a meter, or about 40 billionths of an inch.)

While their use in microfluidics has not been well explored, Wardle says carbon nanotubes are an ideal platform because their properties may be manipulated to attract certain nanometer - sized molecules.

The oleic coating is also remarkably thin, just about a nanometer thick, allowing it to conform to even the smallest cracks and imperfections in the structure.

Flash melting of lead in the core of a nanotube enables close tracking of nanometer - scale fluid dynamics.

As novel light sources, carbon nanotubes of about 1 micrometer in length and 1 nanometer in diameter are positioned on metal contacts in transverse direction to the waveguide.

Colvin said it's relatively simple to add a polymer coating to the 3.8 - nanometer spheres.

The nanometer - scale surface layers and interface layers influence the properties of various materials such as catalysts, batteries, semiconductors, sensors and anticorrosion materials.

Most of them dealt with nanometer - scale systems derived either from biology or from technology and I had the idea of bundling them together into a book.

These 25 - nanometer - wide tubes — thousands of times smaller than a red blood cell — are found in every cell in plants and animals.

The research team, which included Zhaolin Liu and colleagues from the A * STAR Institute of Materials Research and Engineering with colleagues from Nanyang Technological University and the National University of Singapore, combined nanometer - sized crystals of this material with sheets of carbon or carbon nanotubes.

Clearly identifiable through scanning tunneling microscopy was a recurring, five - vertex connecting element less than one nanometer across, a cerium - ligand coordination unit.

In a paper published in Science Advances, ICFO researchers Roland Terborg, Josselin Pello, Ilaria Mannelli, UPC Prof. at ICFO Juan P. Torres and ICREA Prof. at ICFO Valerio Pruneri, have built a novel low - cost, compact on - chip microscope, made with consumer electronic products, capable of simultaneously measuring nanometer - thick changes over a large volume (0.5 cm ^ 3) in transparent objects such as glass.

«This technology can actively stabilize two items relative to each other with a precision well below one nanometer at room temperature,» JILA / NIST physicist Tom Perkins says.

Hoping to create circuits with the flexibility of skin, materials scientist John Rogers of the University of Illinois, Urbana - Champaign, and colleagues cut up nanometer - sized strips of silicon; implanted thin, wavy strips of gold to conduct electricity; and mounted the entire circuit in a stretchable, spider web - type mesh of polymer as a support.

This so - called carbon nanotube could be likened to an unimaginably long garden hose: a hollow tube just a nanometer or so in diameter but perhaps millions of times as long as it is wide.

On top of it they placed a metal electrode coated with a 10 - to 50 - nanometer - thick film of an insulating material.

«This level of 3D stability may start to interest the nanomanufacturing world, when they look at making and characterizing things on the single - nanometer scale.»

We'll end up with a population that's familiar with nanometer - scale projects.»

(A nanometer is a billionth of a meter.)

But this could change: a new finding shows that nanometer - sized particles can generate electrical charges from sunlight more efficiently than any semiconductor tested before.

To disperse the aluminum compound and make the metal less brittle, researchers led by materials scientist Hansoo Kim of Pohang University of Science and Technology in South Korea added nickel, which caused the aluminum compound to permeate the metal in nanometer - sized clusters instead of long bands.

The instrument must be stable to within about one - tenth of a nanometer (1 angstrom to biologists, equivalent to the diameter of a hydrogen atom).

They sandwiched a 50 - nanometer - thick layer of insulating silicon nitride between silver on top and gold on the bottom.

But when augmented by the new JILA measurement platform, it can reliably achieve tenth of a nanometer stability for up to 100 seconds at a time.

This illustration shows the emission of phonons (sound waves) from a nanometer scale waveguide, as optical waves flow through it.

In 2007, for instance, researchers found that graphene was not truly planar but had a characteristic roughness in the form of nanometer - size surface ripples.

The 180 - nanometer - wide fibers are made of beta - keratin, a protein similar to the one in human hair.

To take an up - close look at the gold nanoparticles in action, the researchers made a vacuum - tight microfluidic chamber by pressing two silicon - nitride semiconductor chips together with a 150 - nanometer spacer in between.

To map the minute landscape of molecules, at scales as tiny as just tenths of a nanometer, and help decipher their functions, structural biologists have long relied on two tools: nuclear magnetic resonance, or NMR, spectroscopy and X-ray crystallography.

Using a cryo - electron microscope, researchers created a highly detailed 3 - D image of the nanometer - sized virus.

Doxorubicin is administered by way of nanometer - sized carrier particles.

A growing interest in thermoelectric materials — which convert waste heat to electricity — and pressure to improve heat transfer from increasingly powerful microelectronic devices have led to improved theoretical and experimental understanding of how heat is transported through nanometer - scale materials.

When German researchers zoomed in to the nanometer scale on time - lapse images of dissolving crystals, they found a surprise: Dissolution happened in pulses, marked by waves that spread just like ripples on a pond.

The study showed that seven - nanometer copper particles deposited on graphene doped with pyridinic nitrogen (an arrangement that causes nitrogen atoms to be bonded to two carbon atoms) had the best performance.

Using samples of first zinc oxide and later calcium carbonate, Fischer made maps that showed every dip and rise on the surface of crystal to a resolution of 1 nanometer or one - billionth of a meter.

A nanometer is one - billionth of a meter.

A nanometer is less than 1/1, 000 the size of a red blood cell and about 1/20, 000 the diameter of a human hair.

A strand of DNA is only about one nanometer in size — not even close to the width of a human hair which is roughly equivalent to 100,000 DNA strands.

Previously, researchers have used either electron beam lithography or, more recently, the tiny styluslike arm of an atomic force microscope (AFM) to create nanometer - sized features on a surface.

But by tinkering with that alignment — spacing it out with other materials or embedding it in a lattice composite at the nanoscale (a nanometer is one billionth of a meter)-- scientists can potentially exponentially increase the strength of these magnets: The stronger the magnet, the fewer of them you need.

They can therefore be employed to observe particles with dimensions of less than 1 nanometer, such as atoms.