Sentences with phrase «nanometers wavelength»

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

They focused a continuous - wave laser emitting light at 488 - nanometer wavelength — visible - wavelength light that is potentially safe for cells — through an optical fiber small enough to fit in a syringe.

Not exact matches

X-rays are a form of electromagnetic radiation with a wavelength in the range of 10 to 0.1 nanometers, corresponding to frequencies in the range 30 to 3000 PHz.

These materials are sensitive to light, and cause the nanoparticles to self - assemble through a photo - dimerization process — crosslinking — when subjected to light at a wavelength of 365 nanometers.

Because the beads are only about 100 nanometers across, slightly smaller than a wavelength of visible light, the collection diffracts light, making the gel shimmer with an iridescent glow.

Boesel's team determined the appropriate angle at which the threads must be bent during weaving so that the blue light stays in the therapeutic wavelength range of around 470 nanometers but is emitted onto the baby's skin, rather than staying in the fabric.

In October 1999, Nichia began selling a five - milliwatt violet laser with a wavelength of 405 nanometers, the shortest ever for a semiconductor laser.

The team demonstrated the hologram of three flat images at wavelengths ranging from blue (480 nanometers) to red (680 nanometers).

The article also says the material discussed radiates at wavelengths between eight and 13 nanometers; the correct measurement is eight to 13 microns.

Like turning the knob on a radio, the team adjusted the pulse so that, if the artificial horizon emitted any Hawking radiation, its wavelength would be between 800 and 900 nanometers, a range that could not be confused with other sources such as laser - induced fluorescence.

«We are now working to achieve a spatial resolution approaching the soft x-ray wavelength, between one and five nanometers, with our X-ray microscopes,» says Shapiro.

One of the most complex eyes in the animal kingdom can be found in species of stomatopod crustaceans (mantis shrimp), some of which have 12 different photoreceptor types, each sampling a narrow set of wavelengths ranging from deep ultraviolet to far red (300 to 720 nanometers)(1 — 3).

The laser light used in DVD players operates at a wavelength of 650 nanometers (nm), which means it has a visible red color.

This material, in which carbon substitutes for some of the lattice oxygen atoms, absorbs light at wavelengths below 535 nanometers and has a lower band - gap energy than rutile (2.32 versus 3.00 electron volts).

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.

Green light, by contrast, has a wavelength of 500 nanometers — 60,000 times smaller — so the shapes that could cloak it would have to be around 50 nanometers long.

It uses the infrared light of 1480 — 1600 nanometers in wavelength usually encountered in the broadband glass fiber network.

Running low - power laser light, akin to that from a typical laser pointer, through the rings generates a tunable response — either attractive or repulsive, depending on the wavelength — that changed the size of the gap between the rings by as much as 20 nanometers.

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.

With beams at three wavelengths (1064, 532, and 355 nanometers), CATS will be used to derive a variety of properties of cloud and aerosol layers.

To get beyond that resolution, researchers are investigating plasmonic lenses, illustrated here, that use excited electrons to focus light into even shorter wavelengths; theoretically, this technique could be used to etch circuit features as small as 5 to 10 nanometers.

Engines on the ship pumped 5500 liters of lake water per minute, sent it through a filter, and then sent it through a vat in which it was zapped with 254 - nanometer - wavelength UV light.

But for one lengthy interval during the observations, the team spotted emissions from hydrogen (at a wavelength of 121.6 nanometers) in the same region.

Lyman alpha arises from hydrogen at a wavelength of 1216 angstroms (121.6 nanometers), but sunlight with the same wavelength illuminates gas that streams into the solar system from beyond, obscuring the view.

The larger the light - irradiated spheres were compared to the laser wavelength (720 nanometers), the stronger the effect of the near - fields as an electron catapult.

Normally visible light could not pick out the lines because the spacing between them — 150 nanometers — is smaller than the light's wavelength.

In the»80s, Czeisler discovered that specialized ganglion cells in the retina are finely tuned to tell the brain to cut melatonin production when they are hit by a short wavelength (around 480 nanometers)-- precisely that of morning light.

They determined the planet's radius at 10 different wavelength bands, from 300 - nanometer ultraviolet light to 1000 - nanometer infrared.

The wavelength of light encountering a single meta - atom is 500 nanometers from peak to peak, or five times the length of Gao and Yang's specially designed meta - atoms, which are 100 nanometers in length.

Most organisms that get their energy from photosynthesis use light in the visible range, wavelengths of about 400 to 700 nanometers.

A mirror reflecting only 1,064 - nanometer - wavelength light directs it into an experimental solar panel.

Their setup, which is specific to the type of explosive being investigated, employs a two - color imaging pyrometer, which consists of two monochrome cameras filtered at 700 nanometers and 900 nanometers, and a full - color single pyrometer that achieves wavelength resolution with a Bayer - type mask covering the sensor chip.

The combined effect of those patterns leads to final images with 62 - nanometer resolution — better than standard SIM and a three-fold improvement over the limits imposed by the wavelength of light.

Lin systematically made the gold bipyramids of consistent size and shape, with edge lengths of 250 nanometers — half the wavelength of blue light.

When the layers have thicknesses below the wavelength of visible light — 400 - 700 nanometers — they interact with its wave properties rather than treating it as a straight ray.

Most photons pass directly through the crystal, but approximately one in a million is split into two visible - light photons having twice the wavelength (532 nanometers) of the original photon (266 nanometers).

The problem with today's resist, however, is that it was originally developed for light sources that emit so - called deep ultraviolet light with wavelengths of 248 and 193 nanometers.

But to gain finer features on chips, the industry intends to switch to a new light source with a shorter wavelength of just 13.5 nanometers.

In particular, this is the case for special ultra-thin glass fibers which have a diameter of only a few hundred nanometers (one nanometer is a millionth part of a millimeter) and which are thereby smaller than the wavelength of light.

Most entangled photons originating from quantum dots, however, operate near 900 nanometers, closer to wavelengths we can see with the naked eye.

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.

In simple terms, the two - photon laser (wavelength 720 nanometers) is a better tool to use than a single - photon laser (365 nanometers) as it can reach deeper inside flesh with less scattering.

At that scale, when the nanotubes are hit by near - infrared light with wavelengths of about 800 to 1,400 nanometers, they naturally fluoresce.

These tools, however, produce nothing close to the angstrom - level (tenth of a nanometer) resolution of a new type of microscope that uses femtosecond pulses of extreme ultraviolet light (EUV)-- the same wavelength light to be used for sub-10 nanometer semiconductor lithography.]

Furthermore, KELT - 9b receives ~ 700 times more extreme ultraviolet radiation (wavelengths shorter than 91.2 nanometers) than WASP - 33b, leading to a predicted range of mass - loss rates that could leave the planet largely stripped of its envelope during the main - sequence lifetime of the host star.

He built PCCs that are tuned to resonate at around 660 nanometers, the wavelength corresponding to a deep shade of the color red.

The nanometer is a convenient unit of measure for optical wavelengths.

The modified Met emits light at a wavelength of 535 nanometers when it recruits the modified SRC.

And how they are doing it just might be the semiconductor industry's ticket for extending its use of optical microscopes to measure computer chip features that are approaching 10 nanometers, tiny fractions of the wavelength of light.

Using a novel microscope that combines standard through - the - lens viewing with a technique called scatterfield imaging, the NIST team accurately measured patterned features on a silicon wafer that were 30 times smaller than the wavelength of light (450 nanometers) used to examine them.