Sentences with phrase «on micrometre»

A fully funded PhD studentship for ** ANY ** UK / EU student is available within Queen's University Belfast under the topic of «Solar Physics with Biomedical Applications: Revealing the hidden science on micrometre to megametre scales».

This means that what previously would have taken centimetres to achieve can now be realised on the micrometre (one millionth of a metre) scale, bringing optical processing into the range of electrical transistors, which currently power personal computers.

Like leaves, biofilms also have rough structures both on the micrometre and the nanometre scale, making them resistant to wetting with water.

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The shorter time for drug delivery is made possible as the miniature needles on the patch create micrometre - sized porous channels in the skin to deliver the drug rapidly.

All of the outputs of the ion pump can also be rapidly switched on or off with the aid of micrometre - sized ion diodes.

Opening and closing a lid on the beaker generated pulses of CO2 that changed the growth rate and made the stems spread into iris - like blossoms, each just 25 micrometres across.

The microfilm is made by depositing 3 to 7 micrometres of the solid liquid crystal on a sheet of PET, the transparent plastic from which some fizzy drink bottles are made, which acts as a support.

It senses the weak van der Waals forces between the tip of a cylindrical silicon probe — just 0.1 micrometres across — and atoms on the surface of the chip.

Using a magnet to move the metallic microgrippers around, Gracias has shown how they can securely hold a range of glass beads, wires and tubes — roughly 200 micrometres in size — and release them on command at desired locations.

They split each cubic micrometre into a 10 × 10 × 2 grid and focused the trap on each voxel in turn.

After a series of brief studies by infrared instruments carried on sounding rockets had detected about 4,000 celestial sources of infrared radiation, the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Netherlands built IRAS to map the sky at infrared wavelengths of 12, 25, 60, and 100 micrometres.

CO2 has its strongest heat - trapping band centred at a wavelength of 15 micrometres (millionths of a metre), with wings that spread out a few micrometres on either side.