Sentences with word «nanometre»

Even just a couple of nanometres out of spec can change the functionality from transparent to reflective, and ultimately customer dissatisfaction.

Lin's team has now come up with an alternative using quantum dots — light - sensitive, semiconducting particles just a few nanometres in diameter.

In the current work, Blamire and his collaborators used a multi-layered stack of metal films in which each layer was only a few nanometres thick.

Quantum dots are tiny structures, measuring no more than a few nanometres across, which due to quantum confinement can only assume certain, discrete states comparable to the energy level of a single atom.

Keeping electrons on track is easy: they obediently confine themselves to metal wires as thin as a few nanometres across.

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Many bacteria swim using flagella — long tails that are attached to tiny motors made of proteins, just tens of nanometres wide.

To select specific wavelengths, they implemented special reflection zone plates, developed and fabricated in the HZB - Institute for Nanometre Optics and Technology headed by Alexei Erko.

Now Kjems's team have created the first piece of 3D DNA origami, by sewing six 2D surfaces together to form a cuboid that measures 42 nanometres by 36nm by 36nm (Nature, DOI: 10.1038 / nature07971).

The motor proteins can «walk» along the tubes, covering about 8 nanometres per step.

The toxic products are active over a range of no more than 100 nanometres from the site of infection.

Using highly miniaturised segmented - style Fresnel lenses — the same design used in lighthouses for more than a century — which enable exceptionally high - quality images of a single atom, the scientists have been able to detect position displacements with nanometre precision in three dimensions.

They had found that water's thermal conductivity — its ability to transfer heat — could be increased by adding nanometre - sized particles of aluminium and titanium oxides.

Nature 2013, 500, 54 — 58 — Nature News, News & Views Sensitive probing of temperature variations on nanometre scales is an outstanding challenge in many areas of modern science and technology.

The research is important to the engineering sector for some potential applications of nanotechnology, for example in catalysis and aerospace, where particles of only nanometre dimensions are subjected to very high temperatures.

Some of the potential applications of nanotechnology, for example in catalysis and aerospace, may subject particles of only nanometre dimensions to very high temperatures.

For now, such technology can cloak only objects with a surface area of a few square micrometres and a few hundred nanometres deep.

X-ray analysis revealed the polymer's double - layer arrangement, and transmission electron microscopy showed the two - dimensional material to be a film with a thickness of several nanometres.

The 3D NanoChemiscope, which was developed at Empa, not only maps samples with nanometre precision, but for the first time can also provide precise information about which chemical elements are arranged where in a sample.

When switched on by 450 nanometre wavelength light waves, on the other hand, the structures reorientate such that the bacteria cells can dock on once again.

Finally, the company also announced the start of development of a new chip, built on 16 nanometre process.

The spin wave circuit that the researchers built, consists of a 200 nanometre thin layer of yttrium iron garnet (a mineral and magnetic insulator, YIG in short), with a conducting platinum strip on top of that on both sides.

Published in the journal Nature, the results of the study, funded in part by the Graphene Flagship, could improve our understanding of water transport through nanometre - scale channels in natural and artificial membranes.

The processor outranks existing 14 - nanometre processors and since it is based on Samsung's own FinFET technology, for Samsung to not incorporate it into its flagship device would be a surprise at the very least.

This is because their wavelength of 1064 nanometres means they are absorbed by the leaves and other organic matter such as oil, but not by metal, so energy from the lasers is reflected off the rails.

The RMIT research team, working with the Beijing Institute of Technology (BIT), has broken this thickness limit with a 25 nanometre hologram based on a topological insulator material — a novel quantum material that holds the low refractive index in the surface layer but the ultrahigh refractive index in the bulk.

By creating nanometre - thick arrays of metal - organic frameworks, Zhao's team was able to expose the pores and increase the surface area for electrical contact with the water.

Image from NASA's Solar Dynamic Observatory (SDO) at 17.7 nanometres showing the flaring active region on 9 March 2012.

We are using metamaterials to concentrate light onto an area less than a square nanometre.

The team studied nanometre - scale plastic beads, an inverse version of the air pockets that give blue feathers their colour.

Today, shrunk to just nanometres across and carved into beds of silicon, these electrical on - off switches mass in their billions on every single computer chip.

With the help of a precision - made mask, Garnier's team lays down a 40 - nanometre film of a polymer semiconductor between the two top contacts, the source and drain.

To do so, the team dried a silica - based gel on glass slides, creating layers of 20 - nanometre silica particles.

The effect, however, turns out to work only in LEDs which use nanometre - thick active regions — quantum wells.

The substance can make water and oil mix, by coating nanometre - sized water droplets that become spread evenly through the oil.

«Static electric fields can not penetrate more than 1 nanometre into good conductors,» explains Bozovic, whose team carried out the new study.

Luiz Da Silva and colleagues from the University of California at Berkeley has already succeeded in using the Livermore laser to observe 50 - nanometre features in the nuclei of dried rat sperm cells (Science, vol 258, p 269).

One pair of electrodes was separated by a 108 - nanometre gap.

A 4 - nanometre wire of silicon, about 20 000 times thinner than a human hair, is called a «quantum wire», since the carriers within it are strongly confined in two dimensions but free to move long distances in the third dimension, along the wire.

However, in natural glycocalyx, a mere nanometre thick polysaccharide layer covering all cells, the relationships are still too complex to uncover how proteins and carbohydrates identify each other.

Here, reactions at one site affect reactions at another site, typically a few nanometres away, without the reactants directly interacting with each other.

We aim to push its limits on all fronts to establish a technique which combines nanometre 3D resolution with maximum labelling efficiencies, absolute measurements of protein copy numbers, precise multi-colour measurements, high - throughput for large scale statistics and novel data analysis approaches, to address the vast array of exciting biological questions at the nanoscale, which are becoming accessible only now.

Apparently those leaked specs in June were spot on, which would mean a specially built ARM multicore chip clocked at 3.1 GHz with a custom 28 nanometre graphics processor by graphic specialists AMD and 5 GB of RAM.

The extra downwelling IR (Infrared radiation) from extra CO2 does warm up the Knudsen layer of the ocean (the topmost few nanometres where all the evaporative action takes place) and perhaps few microns below it.

The 970 is designed by Huawei's HiSilicon chip design business and built using the most advanced 10 nanometre production lines of contract manufacturer TSMC.