Sentences with phrase «of small lenses»

Light is sent through an array of small lenses — which refract it over a viewing angle about 50 degrees wide and 20 degrees high — and through an LCD screen that carries part of the final image.

Not exact matches

In this same way we are looking at small business and entrepreneurship through the lens of the past, without factoring in six game - changers that are going to spur what I believe will be the greatest era of innovation and entrepreneurship the world has ever seen.

OPEN Forum looks at the national debt ceiling crisis through the lens of small business.

Yet, the company's segmented market information offers a telling detail: while Coastal's eyeglasses sales in North America are almost equal to its core contact lens business, glasses account for a much smaller portion of the firm's sales in places such as Sweden, Japan and Australia.

The deal sees Valeant retain a smaller Australian presence, including ownership of its Bausch + Lomb contact lenses business.

By means of the lens, we are able to see things through point correspondences which are too small or too big or too fast to be seen by the eye.

If she would wear smaller lenses, then perhaps she might honor us all with an imitation of Tina Fey.

A small, round piece of glass called a camera lens.

We once viewed websites through essentially one lens — a desktop or laptop computer, on a relatively small monitor and via one of a handful of roughly similar web browsers.

But there are plenty of smaller clusters and long rivers of galaxies, known as galaxy filaments, that fiddle with the light and create weak lenses.

In exposures of 15 minutes to 24 hours the lens concentrates the heat of the sun into a small, inflammatory dot.

FlatScope eliminates the tradeoff that hinders traditional microscopes in which arrays of lenses can either gather less light from a large field of view or gather more light from a smaller field.

About the size of «a hair on a bumblebee,» he says, with a circuit the size of a dime, it contains no optical lenses and works by allowing a small volume of fluid to flow across a microchip, which then sends images of the sample to a computer.

An optical lens can deflect a light beam into a much smaller area of space; a time lens deflects a section of a light beam into a smaller chunk of time.

According to the researchers, each microlens produces a small image of an object with a form dictated by the parameters of the lens and the viewing angle.

Reed Scherer, a micropaleontologist from N.I.U., dabbed some of that mud onto a glass slide and slipped it under the lens of a small, folding field microscope.

Just like a smaller aperture on a camera lens, a smaller pupil creates a deeper field of focus.

It is truly remarkable that the single - lens instruments made by Leeuwenhoek could allow him to see organisms so small, yet even with the best lenses of the day, he could not resolve their internal structures.

The microscope was smaller than its counterpart, and the two lenses were set in a barrel made of leather and wood.

The lens can resolve nanoscale features separated by distances smaller than the wavelength of light.

«We wanted to design a single planar lens with a high numerical aperture, meaning it can focus light into a spot smaller than the wavelength,» said Mohammadreza Khorasaninejad, a postdoctoral fellow in the Capasso lab and first author of the paper.

«Meta - lens works in the visible spectrum, sees smaller than a wavelength of light: High efficiency ultra-thin planar lens could replace heavy, bulky lenses in smart phones, cameras and telescopes.»

The lens can be used to see objects on the scale of small viruses.

Even so, the Hubble's ability to see so many of these lenses in a small fraction of the sky takes them from being a scientific curiosity to serving as a potentially powerful tool for probing the universe's evolution and expansion.

Prior research revealed how jumping spiders achieve better acuity out of a small visual system by moving the sensor around behind their lens.

Rhie was looking at a lens consisting of a cluster of small, dense objects such as stars or planets.

They found that although most of the shell consists of small, irregularly arranged crystals, the oblong lens is made of large crystals, aligned to allow light through relatively unimpeded.

(In the image above the more distant quasar HE 1104 - 1805 is seen as the two larger images on either side of the smaller yet closer lens galaxy [WKK93] G.) The stars in that lens galaxy then act like ultra-high resolution telescopes (see the NASA video).

The detail on the right is a simulation of the micro-gravitational lens effect in the gamma ray region; direct observation of the orange ring — it also represents images of the blazar — is not possible due to its small size.

He cut off his waist - length ponytail so he would not stand out in the crowds, bought a small camera and placed it in a bag of Panda licorice with a lens - size hole cut in the side.

Within the lensed image of the source are small - scale distortions, which encode an imprint of how the lens galaxy's mass is distributed.

«We've focused our lens on these risks in a small population with a specific genetic subtype of schizophrenia, where the connection between birth factors and risk of developing schizophrenia is noticeably stronger.»

This boosted the total resolution of the image despite the smaller number of lenses.

In the method created by Khakh's team, different colors of light pass through a lens to magnify objects that are invisible to the naked eye and far smaller than those viewable by earlier techniques.

The homemade appearance of the instrument — a wooden tube covered with brown paper and fitted with two small lenses — cut an impossible contrast to the remote sensing devices and future spacecraft designs that dominated the scientific presentations.

Normally, optical lenses can not resolve objects smaller than half the wavelength of light.

One of the Columbia lens designs resembles a fly's eye, with half the sphere covered in small, hexagonal relay lenses that transmit images to an array of sensors just above them.

The pack feeds a video signal from a TV tuner, VCR or camcorder to a small colour LCD screen mounted inside the top of the spectacles, from where it is picked up by a prism and a lens.

A handful of other components — a lens, a small display screen and several cables — make up the rest of the camera.

Just imagine: An optical lens so powerful that it lets you view features the size of a small virus on the surface of a...

Lenses are used in microscopes and cameras to focus light, thus allowing a researcher to see small things or a photographer to capture image of things that are far away.

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.

Immunohistochemistry of paraffin - embedded human small intestine tissue slide using 10379 -1-AP (SNRPD3 Antibody) at dilution of 1:50 (under 10x lens)

This is mainly because of the small size of the lens in our eye, which limits the amount of light it can gather, and also limits the detail we can see for those incredibly distant objects.

My undergraduate research students and I use a small tropical fish called the zebrafish to study the function of the ocular lens and what can go wrong to produce cataracts, one of the leading causes of human blindness.

My research focuses on the evolution, physiology and biochemistry of alpha crystallins, a group of small heat shock proteins that protect cells against stress and are implicated in numerous diseases such as lens cataracts, Parkinsons, Alzheimers and cancer.

Through a small window, the miniscope captures fluorescent light emitted by thousands of neurons as they fire, and a thin wire carries data from the device's lens to a computer for analysis.

However, he dismissed the possibility of ever discovering such a lens, because of the small chance that the precise coincidence required would ever arise.

The Science Optical lenses that can see features smaller than the wavelength of light can not be made from conventional materials.

The deposits selected for luminescence dating were mainly composed of poorly to moderately well - sorted, medium to very coarse subangular sand with occasional thin lenses of small gravel.