Sentences with phrase «nanometers high»

To observe nucleation in a collagen gap — about 2 nanometers high and 40 nanometers wide — the team studied calcium phosphate nucleation with in situ small - angle X-ray scattering at the Advanced Photon Source in Argonne National Lab.
The yellow section, which has small, interlocking protrusions about 50 nanometers high, also absorbs light — and the researchers showed that xanthoperin, the pigment that gives it its yellow color, can be used to convert light into electricity.
However, by «using a texture rather than a dot, the researchers found the hand can detect roughness just 75 nanometers high» — a nanometer being one thousandth of a micron!

Not exact matches

The new chips are manufactured at a scale of 12 nanometers, down from 14 nm for last year's Ryzen line, which should make them more energy efficient and higher performing.
AMD was also able to move manufacturing of the chip at partner GlobalFoundries from a 14 - nanometer scale to a 12 - nanometer scale, allowing for higher clock speeds and better energy consumption.
This high - tech kit allows you to construct tiny objects only 100 nanometers in size!
The researchers used the state - of - the - art nanofabrication technology to make arrays of electrodes with a width of only 100 nanometers (0.00001 centimeters) to excite sound waves at an unprecedented high frequency that is higher than 10 GHz, the frequency used for satellite communications.
It includes everything from huge boulders to particles only a few nanometers in diameter, but most of it is a puree created by uncountable high - speed micrometeorites that have been crashing into the moon unimpeded by atmosphere for more than 3billion years.
Nanowires are very small — about 2 micrometers high (1 micrometer is a thousandth of a millimetre) and 10 - 500 nanometers in diameter (1 nanometer is a thousandth of a micrometer).
«So using this method we can look at interactions between four biological components inside a cell in three - dimension and at very high resolution of about 10 nanometers,» Xu said.
«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.»
After combining the main ingredients of chocolate — cocoa, sugar, milk powder, and cocoa butter — and grounding them into a powder (to speed up the process), the scientists used high - powered x-rays to peer into the sweet's crystal structure, down to a scale of several nanometers.
The system conceived at TU Eindhoven uses infrared light with wavelengths of 1500 nanometers and higher; this light has frequencies that are thousands of times higher, some 200 terahertz, which makes the data capacity of the light rays much larger.
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.
However, the health of the entire population pays a high price: substitution of gasoline for ethanol leads to a 30 % increase in the atmospheric concentration of ultrafine particulate matter, which consists of particles with a diameter of less than 50 nanometers (nm).
A high - tech microscope, assembled in a living room (above), revealed molecules (red, inset) nanometers apart inside a cell's mitochondria.
Although SIM and other superresolution techniques are pushing to spatial resolutions as high as 20 nanometers, they do not have the field of view of a technique like Bessel beam microscopy; they can only see a very small area, and imaging a larger area with those techniques takes a long time.
German - based company Nanoscribe has developed a high - precision femto - second 3D printer with 150 nanometer precision, but it builds the lens in a point - by - point fashion instead of layering, Sun said.
A nanometer is one billionth of a meter and visible only with the aid of a high - power electron microscope.
The surface pattern on the NFO films consists of raised structures that are 55 nanometers (nm) high and 750 nm wide.
Using high - powered microscopes, researchers have now discovered that nanometer - sized fibers in the bird's wing feathers provide the unusual blue hue.
Van der Waals forces cause the carbon atoms in the two sheets to attract, squeezing nanometer - thick puddles of water inside a high - pressure graphene sandwich.
The technology is made of extremely small, synthetic high density lipoproteins measuring roughly 10 nanometers.
If you take a look at things like transistor density and you compare, pardon the pun, apples - to - apples and you compare, say, the A7 to our Bay Trail, which is a high density 22 nanometer technology, then our transistor density is higher or more dense than the A7 is.
Higher pH, between eight and 10, triggers the membrane's filtration material, 200 nanometers thick (one nanometer equals 40 millionths of an inch), to become more porous, allowing water to pass through at a much faster rate while trapping salt (for desalinization) and contaminants such as arsenic (which becomes ionic at such a high pH and thereby easier for the filter to separate out).
«Using standard lithography fabrication techniques, studies have seen mobility of 100 cm2 / Vs or even lower, but our material still exceeds 2000 cm2 / Vs even at the sub-10 nanometer scale, demonstrating that these nanoribbons are of very high quality.»
The new tool will soon be able to generate pulses of high - energy light, with a wavelength of 60 nanometers, in the extreme ultraviolet segment of the spectrum.
As such, a closely related material, black phosphorus, has been receiving intense research attention because it has a small band gap and a high charge carrier mobility, and can easily be reduced to nanometer thicknesses.
What O'Shea's team saw, in both resting and dividing cells, was chromatin whose «beads on a string» did not form any higher - order structure like the theorized 30 or 120 or 320 nanometers.
Solar cells based on semitransparent 80 - nanometer films made using the process were shown to have higher efficiency than any other ultra-thin film.
For example, scientists can use these properties to synthesize membranes that have a high surface area, meaning they can do a lot of work, and with tiny, nanometer - sized, patterns.
Because they can be programmed to travel the body and selectively target cancer and other sites of disease, nanometer - scale vehicles called nanocarriers can deliver higher concentrations of drugs to bombard specific areas...
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.
As incremental advances in nanotechnology provide increasingly fine control over the structure of matter at the nanometer scale, they point toward the even greater advances that will occur once high - throughput atomically precise manufacturing becomes available.
Since the high pressure produced by the laser only lasts a split second, the resulting diamonds are extremely small — only nanometers in size.
To accomplish this, Xie's group has developed several strategies to achieve single - molecule sensitivity with high specificity, millisecond time resolution, and nanometer precision in living cells.
International partners have contributed equipment, labor and expertise, including Britain's Science and Technology Facilities Council supplying the suspension assembly and some mirror optics; the Max Planck Society of Germany providing the high - power, high - stability laser; and an Australian consortium of universities supported by the Australian Research Council offering systems for initially positioning and measuring in place the optics curvature to nanometer precision.
However, Pellegrino noted that manufacturing space telescope quality mirrors and lenses requires nanometer - level precision, whereas «the highest accuracy currently achievable with 3 - D printing is on the order of 10 micrometers.
For maximum benefit, look for a formula that contains phosphatidylcholine, with the liposomes under 300 nanometers in diameter or a high - quality (Non-GMO) powder.
The highest particle surface area is achieved when there is a high concentration of nanometer or sub-nanometer sized particles.
«Our MOF conversion technique allows for nanometer precision of catalyst - loading to optimize our systems for high activity.
The highest - performing particles are about 100 nanometers long and 25 nanometers wide.
The solar cells are made of uniform 500 - nanometer - high pillars of cadmium sulfide embedded in a thin film of cadmium telluride.
Both chips will be built on the 10 - nanometer process, enabling higher performance and lower battery consumption.
The Analog FastSPICE Platform ™ (AFS ™) provides the world's fastest, most accurate, highest capacity simulation for nanometer - scale circuits - including high - performance mixed - signal SoCs
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