Sentences with phrase «of a single atom»

In addition to the unique energetic properties of single atoms, the CO2 conversation reaction was facilitated by the interaction of the nickel atoms with a surrounding sheet of graphene.

The satellites are designed to detect a change in their spacing as small as one - tenth the diameter of a single atom.

With the help of a single atom, physicists have devised a system in which one light beam can turn another on or off.

If the power of the single atom engine was scaled up from the tiny mass of an atom, its output would be equivalent to that of a car engine.

The smallest unit of a magnet is the magnetic moment of a single atom or ion.

Here, the ability to control the state of single atoms is decisive.

The third area of research involves the use of a single atom to store a bit of information.

The size of the entire universe is more difficult but we could say that the part of the universe visible to us, compared to the entire universe, would be the equivalent of a single atom in relation our observable universe.

12 The world's most accurate clock, at the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Colorado, measures vibrations of a single atom of mercury.

The positions of 3769 tungsten atoms in a tungsten needle segment were determined to a precision of 19 pm (0.019 nm), including the position of a single atom defect in the interior of the sample, by using aberration - corrected scanning transmission electron microscopy and computerized tomography.

«In this study we took a fundamental approach to understanding the atomic scale structure and properties of single atom alloy surfaces and then applied this knowledge to develop a working catalyst.

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.

That might seem precise, but to physicists, who can track the vibrations of a single atom to nine decimal places, it's slipshod.

Those nanocavity indentations were coated with nanoflakes of molybdenum disulfide, a two - dimensional material with the thickness of a single atom.

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.

According to scientists from the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, measuring a water droplet with a resolution comparable with the scale of a single atom will reveal that the droplet interface behaves like a miniature stormy sea.

Physicist Jeremy Levy of the University of Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania reckons the future of single atom transistors lies in quantum computers.

The experiments showed the maximum magnetic anisotropy energy of a single atom (~ 60 millielectron volts) and the longest spin lifetime for a single transition metal atom.

Each bit is encoded using the magnetic field of a single atom — making for extremely compact data storage, although researchers have stored only two bits of data so far.

And the progress goes on: Late last year, researchers in Finland and Australia built an experimental transistor out of a single atom of phosphorus.

Because X-ray crystallography doesn't reveal the structure of a material on a per - atom basis, the technique can't identify tiny imperfections in materials such as the absence of a single atom.

Their methodology and findings can impact a range of fields from fundamental studies of single atom and single molecule magnetism to the design of spintronic device architectures.

Simultaneously, the physicists found a method for measuring a transistor - like behaviour of single atoms.

«Exploring the magnetism of a single atom.»

Armed with this knowledge, we are now ready to compare the stability of these single atom alloy catalysts to single atom catalysts supported on various oxide or carbon surfaces.

Sykes and Flytzani - Stephanopoulos have used this approach to design a variety of single atom alloy catalysts that have, in the last two years, sparked international interest.

«Nanoists» envision global abundance emerging from the manipulation of single atoms and molecules.

«Using this technique, we can zero in on and measure the vibration of atoms and electrons, which is essentially the temperature of a single atom in a two - dimensional material,» said Klie.

«Theoretical work demonstrated that irregularities in the surface known as steps and observed in experiments conducted at the Trieste Synchrotron tend to attract and separate the nanoparticles, causing them to remain literally attached in the form of single atoms,» explains Stefano Fabris, CNR - IOM / SISSA research fellow.

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An ion that consists of a single atom is called a monatomic ion, and an ion made up of more than one atom is called a polyatomic ion.

Researchers in Australia and the US have demonstrated a working transistor by placing of single atom of phosphorous with atomic precision between gates made of wires only a few phosphorous atoms wide.

This gives us an image of the existence of that single atom in its captivity.

To dictate the exact position of their single atom, Michelle Simmons at the University of New South Wales, Australia, and colleagues started by covering a silicon sheet with a layer of hydrogen.

Researchers in Yang's group led by Wenhan Niu, Zhao Li and Kyle Marcus developed a new process for creating a catalyst with a substrate of graphene, a highly conductive two - dimensional material with the thickness of a single atom.

«The copper atoms along the rows were slightly closer together, by about the diameter of a single atom, than the atoms across the rows,» says Anggara.

If we manage to keep pace with Moore's Law for a few more decades, the ultimate challenge would come at the level of a single atom, electron, or perhaps photon.

Researchers at the Center for Quantum Nanoscience within the Institute for Basic Science (IBS) have made a major breakthrough in controlling the quantum properties of single atoms.

Atomic force microscopes are able to reproduce spectacular images, at the scale of single atoms.

Spiralling electron beams have the potential to measure and manipulate the properties of single atoms.

A «new super powerful electron microscope that can pinpoint the position of single atoms» had been unveiled at a facility in the UK.