Sentences with phrase «nanometre dimensions»

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

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.

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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.

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.

As the depression is only some 50 nanometres deep, and the eisosomes are a maximum of 150 by 100 nanometres in dimension, this required an extremely high resolution.