Sentences with phrase «of nanometer scale»

He used this phenomenon to generate the basic logic functions and other features required for computation, thereby creating the first computer circuit in which all components were of nanometer scale.

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In one year, representing the «tick,» it would improve its microprocessors by printing the transistors on the chips closer together, reducing the scale of the process, say, from 32 nanometers to 22 nanometers.

The new chips are manufactured at a scale of 12 nanometers, down from 14 nm for last year's Ryzen line, which should make them more energy efficient and higher performing.

Intel has teased the large - scale release of these 10 - nanometer chips for years, promising they'd deliver better performance with lower power usage than chips built with the company's 14 - nanometer technology, which have been shipping since 2014.

AMD was also able to move manufacturing of the chip at partner GlobalFoundries from a 14 - nanometer scale to a 12 - nanometer scale, allowing for higher clock speeds and better energy consumption.

Joint research between Tampere University of Technology (TUT)(Finland) and University of Tübingen (Germany) has shown that carefully structured light and matching arrangements of metal nanostructures (so - called «plasmonic oligomers») can be combined to alter the properties of the generated light at the nanometer scale.

For several decades, nanomaterials — matter that is so small it is measured in nanometers (one nanometer = one - billionth of a meter) and can be manipulated at the atomic scale — have outperformed conventional materials in strength, conductivity and other key attributes.

Living cells are micrometer - scale units capable of replication, growth, chemical synthesis, and movement using technologies operating on individual molecules at the nanometer scale.

On the nanometer scale, we observed the coexistence of ordered surface water and crystallite - like ice structures, evident in the superposition of Bragg spots and Debye - Scherrer rings.

The researchers worked on the nanometer scale — one billionth of a meter — with carbon nanotubes.

Rescue workers and those who survived the Twin Towers» collapse were bathed in the dust, which contained particles of sizes ranging from the millimeter scale down to nanometers in width, the right size to embed deep in the lungs if inhaled.

When German researchers zoomed in to the nanometer scale on time - lapse images of dissolving crystals, they found a surprise: Dissolution happened in pulses, marked by waves that spread just like ripples on a pond.

A growing interest in thermoelectric materials — which convert waste heat to electricity — and pressure to improve heat transfer from increasingly powerful microelectronic devices have led to improved theoretical and experimental understanding of how heat is transported through nanometer - scale materials.

To map the minute landscape of molecules, at scales as tiny as just tenths of a nanometer, and help decipher their functions, structural biologists have long relied on two tools: nuclear magnetic resonance, or NMR, spectroscopy and X-ray crystallography.

This illustration shows the emission of phonons (sound waves) from a nanometer scale waveguide, as optical waves flow through it.

«A future application of this material is the observation of individual cell membranes because our material is suited for observing nanoscale NMR on the volume scale of 17 cubic nanometers, which is comparable to the thickness of cell membranes (~ 5 nanometers),» Ishiwata said.

«This level of 3D stability may start to interest the nanomanufacturing world, when they look at making and characterizing things on the single - nanometer scale.»

After combining the main ingredients of chocolate — cocoa, sugar, milk powder, and cocoa butter — and grounding them into a powder (to speed up the process), the scientists used high - powered x-rays to peer into the sweet's crystal structure, down to a scale of several nanometers.

Most of them dealt with nanometer - scale systems derived either from biology or from technology and I had the idea of bundling them together into a book.

The nanometer - scale surface layers and interface layers influence the properties of various materials such as catalysts, batteries, semiconductors, sensors and anticorrosion materials.

Flash melting of lead in the core of a nanotube enables close tracking of nanometer - scale fluid dynamics.

The team began their work by fabricating the electrodes of the SET, which were separated by a nanometer scale gap, with an electroless gold - plating technique.

This special kind of lasers consists of tailor made semiconductor layers on a nanometer scale.

Here, «classical» electronic components like circuits and transistors are implemented on scales of less than 100 nanometers.

Nanotechnology is the idea that we can create devices and machines all the way down to the nanometer scale, which is a billionth of a meter, about half the width of a human DNA molecule.

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.

It will open a completely new set of applications, such as optical communications and sensing at a scale below one nanometer,» said ICREA Professor Frank Koppens at ICFO — The Institute of Photonic Sciences in Barcelona, Spain, who led the research.

Two research teams have independently developed light microscopy techniques that resolve objects on the nanometer scale, one of which is described online in Science this week (www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/1127344).

It's relatively easy to measure small movements of large objects but much more difficult when the moving parts are on the scale of nanometers, or billionths of a meter.

It uses a laser beam to excite molecules to glow, and a second beam to cancel out all fluorescence except that in a small nanometer - scale (billionths of a meter) volume.

Scientists around the world are using the programmability of DNA to assemble complex nanometer - scale structures.

Taking child's play with building blocks to a whole new level - the nanometer scale - scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory have constructed 3D «superlattice» multicomponent nanoparticle arrays where the arrangement of particles is driven by the shape of the tiny building blocks.

By correlating the local effects of this emitted light with the position of the electron beam, spatial images of these effects can be reconstructed with nanometer - scale resolution.

His «nanotomography» method turns a scanning probe microscope on successive layers of a material to build up three - dimensional images of its innards at the nanometer scale.

Biologists have better tools — such as advanced microscopy for viewing things on the scale of thousandths of nanometers — that allow them to learn more about animals and their physical mechanisms, he says.

The mice seem to develop normally when only one copy of the gene is removed, but microscopic inspection reveals a number of small «gaps,» or disorganized regions of tissue (on the scale of a few nanometers) on their aortas, the largest artery in their bodies.

«Using standard lithography fabrication techniques, studies have seen mobility of 100 cm2 / Vs or even lower, but our material still exceeds 2000 cm2 / Vs even at the sub-10 nanometer scale, demonstrating that these nanoribbons are of very high quality.»

In experiments in mice and pigs, a team of chemists and surgeons has used quantum dots — nanometer - scale crystals that emit light — to refine lymph node biopsies.

Artificial spin ice is a class of lithographically created arrays of interacting ferromagnetic nanometer - scale islands.

Using a technique known as DNA origami, biophysicist Hendrik Dietz has been building nanometer - scale objects for several years at the Technical University of Munich (TUM).

An international team of researchers led by physicists at the University of Basel have been studying the lubricity of this material on the nanometer scale.

At the beginning of 2007, shortly after I joined the engineering faculty at Yale, I began to assemble a team to find ways of using light to drive silicon devices on a nanometer scale.

But at nanometer - size scales for water and potentially other fluids, whether the container is made of glass or plastic does make a significant difference.

In previous investigations, the Yan group created subtle architectural forms at an astonishingly minute scale, some measuring only tens of nanometers across — roughly the diameter of a virus particle.

This requires us to visualize the interactions that are happening at the scale of nanometers, which are billionths of a meter.

Complex functional materials and nanometer - scale structures, and their application in integrated micro - and nanosystems, and in the development of characterization techniques.

At the near - nanometer scale, researchers are developing a robust method to quantify atomic - scale changes at energy storage material interfaces using the new generation of aberration - corrected microscopes and in situ stages.

The growth can be controlled by varying the number of building blocks added or by changing the solution pH. Repair using peptoid monomers with differing structure and chemistry demonstrated that the lipid - like design of these membranes could essentially be rewritten by inserting patterns of new distinct functional groups into them with nanometer - scale precision to produce multifunctional two - dimensional materials by design.

As an example, imaging researchers obtained nanometer - scale images of environmental particles linked to climatic and health problems.

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