Sentences with phrase «nanometers thin»

The preferential interactions of the elements in the alloy occur within a nanometer thin layer at the interface of the solid alloy and the liquid metal.

Not exact matches

«This is a way of coloring something with a very thin layer of material, so in principle, if it's a metal to begin with, you can just use 10 nanometers to color it, and if it's not, you can deposit a metal that's 30 nm thick and then another 10 nm.

The silks get their strength from thin crystal proteins only nanometers wide, which are stacked together like pancakes.

Their new approach involves depositing a thin film of silver (measuring about 10 nanometers thick) onto a solar cell surface and heating it to 200 ° Celsius.

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.

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.

A Hewlett - Packard team crafted the device by inserting a layer of titanium dioxide as thin as three nanometers between a pair of platinum layers.

They do not take up much space: Layers with a thickness in the order of magnitude of nanometers are enough to detect light — the detector is more than a thousand times thinner than the wavelength of the light which is being detected.

«The copper coating on the polymer separator is only 50 nanometers thick, about 500 times thinner than the separator itself,» said Wu, a postdoctoral fellow in the Cui group.

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.

We can consistently create uniform shells as thin as 2 nanometers.»

«In our paper, we studied only polystyrene structure and what happens to this structure at glass transition when you go to very thin, nanometer - thick films,» Lyulin said.

Though single crystals were once thought to be too fragile for flexible applications, the UMass Amherst team found that crystals ranging in thickness from about 150 nanometers to 1 micrometer were thin enough to be wrinkled and applied to any elastomer substrate.

Swearer began by synthesizing 100 - nanometer - diameter aluminum crystals that, once exposed to air, develop a thin 2 - to 4 - nanometer - thick coating of aluminum oxide.

Using electron microscopes, the scientists took images of the thin films (about 100 nanometers thick) of the material they prepared, before and after they hit the films with low - energy protons.

The addition of a few nanometers of a thin layer of aluminum oxide protects a perovskite solar cell against humidity — still a major stumbling block to the commercial application of this new type of solar cell.

The researchers placed particles of gold ranging in diameter from 15 to 30 nanometers in a fluid suspension within a thin chamber located between two electrodes.

In nanometer - thin magnetic films, such as iron - nickel alloys, the region separating two magnetic domains or defects can adopt tiny whirlpool - like patterns.

Researchers have made thin - film solar cells with absorbing layers just tens of nanometers thick, but such a fine film can allow much of the light to pass through before it has a chance to be absorbed.

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 layer deposition is a layer - by - layer chemical vapor deposition - based thin - film growth technique used extensively in the electronics industry to deposit nanometer - thick films of dielectric materials on devices.

Abstract: Scientists at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) have devised a clever combination of materials — when used during the thin - film growth process — to reveal that particle atomic layer deposition, or p - ALD, deposits a uniform nanometer - thick shell on core particles regardless of core size, a discovery having significant impacts for many applications since most large scale powder production techniques form powder batches that are made up of a range of particles sizes.

When the films are thinner than a nanometer, the reactions are slower.

They report * that measurements of the etched lines — as thin as 16 nanometers wide — on the SEMATECH - fabricated wafer were accurate to one nanometer.

The extremely thin diameter of 1.5 nanometers (over 60,000 times thinner than a human hair) means that thousands of the wires can easily be packed into a very small space.

At 10 nanometers (nm), the sleek new polymer material that scientists at Western University have developed for use in flash memory devices is 10,000 times thinner than a single human...

In this geometry, electrons (or holes) propagate perpendicular to the slit orientation seeing only a thin layer of active material (tens of nanometers), while light propagates as SPPs along the slit length, effectively seeing a much thicker layer.

PEEL is used at the Laboratory's National Ignition Facility for the daily fabrication of membranes as thin as 30 nanometers that serve as compliant, load - bearing elements for laser targets.

The thin - film cell consists of layers of silver and gold between the semiconductor layers, but the combined thickness is still only a few hundred nanometers thick, compared to a piece of paper which is 100,000 nanometers thick.

Nanostructured, enhanced with silicon oxide, covered with a nanometer - thin layer of aluminum oxide and cobalt oxide — these treatments optimize the electrochemical properties of the material, but are nonetheless simple to apply.

The solar cells are made of uniform 500 - nanometer - high pillars of cadmium sulfide embedded in a thin film of cadmium telluride.