Sentences with phrase «on nanometer»

Her research involves engineering a lattice interface on the nanometer scale, and then using that information to simulate a quantum system that can be studied.

Nanoelectronics: Electronics on a nanometer scale, whether made by current techniques or nanotechnology; includes both molecular electronics and nanoscale devices resembling today's semiconductor devices.

Hyperbolic metasurfaces are challenging to fabricate because an extremely precise structuring on the nanometer scale is required.

In 1980, Seeman started the field of DNA nanotechnology with the idea of using the structural information in DNA to organize matter on the nanometer scale in three dimensions.

Scanning electron microscopy is a powerful method for investigating surface structures on the nanometer scale.

Michael Berndt (Diez, MPG)-- «Optical Near - fields in fluorescence microscopy - Techniques to access information in the third dimension on the nanometer scale» (2010)

Materials structured on the nanometer scale can lead to improved and sometimes surprising properties.

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.

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.

Structural information on nanometer - sized gold particles has been limited, due in part to the problem of preparing homogeneous material.

The new material could also lead to optical sensors that are highly sensitive to the electrical field in the environment on the nanometer scale.»

«This is a big step: It is not easy to reliably design and realize such a thing on a nanometer scale,» says the scientist.

Using a new technique, Van Heumen and McLeod are now able to visualise the changes taking place in the material during such a phase transition on the nanometer scale.

«Quantum dots are semiconductor crystals on a nanometer scale.

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).

Due to this unique control over matter on the nanometer - scale, DNA nanostructures have also been considered for applications in molecular biology and nanomedicine.

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

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

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.

Not exact matches

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.

It was the CSR program that earlier this year unveiled a breakthrough computer chip based on 5 nanometer architecture with the smallest transistors ever created.

The new research focused on small nanoparticles — those with diameters of 5 to 15 nanometers.

He worked on osmosis and colloids, which are suspensions of nanometer - sized particles.

The new technique for functional imaging allows probing of regions on the order of billionths of meters, or nanometers, to characterize a sample's surface hills and valleys, its elasticity (or «bounciness») throughout deeper layers, and its chemical composition.

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

In order for lateral confinement to be produced, the cross section of the structure must be much smaller than the «mean free path» of a phonon, or only a few to hundreds of nanometers depending on the material, Wang said.

So he isolated a single ytterbium atom in a vacuum chamber, shined a laser at it, and focused in on the resulting 450 - nanometer gap of darkness that landed on his digital image sensor.

To honor the visionary Feynman, Otte and his team now coded a section of Feynman's lecture on an area 100 nanometers wide.

Previously, researchers have used either electron beam lithography or, more recently, the tiny styluslike arm of an atomic force microscope (AFM) to create nanometer - sized features on a surface.

Using samples of first zinc oxide and later calcium carbonate, Fischer made maps that showed every dip and rise on the surface of crystal to a resolution of 1 nanometer or one - billionth of a meter.

The study showed that seven - nanometer copper particles deposited on graphene doped with pyridinic nitrogen (an arrangement that causes nitrogen atoms to be bonded to two carbon atoms) had the best performance.

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.

On a nanoscale level, the scales on a snake's belly are covered in minuscule hairs, called microfibrils, which are less than 400 nanometers widOn a nanoscale level, the scales on a snake's belly are covered in minuscule hairs, called microfibrils, which are less than 400 nanometers widon a snake's belly are covered in minuscule hairs, called microfibrils, which are less than 400 nanometers wide.

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.

By formulating their product with bits of carnauba (palm - tree wax) that are only nanometers wide, automotive cosmetics maker Eagle One says it's able to make a coating that always goes on clear.

Intel and other chipmakers already use photolithography to pattern features on chips as small as 32 nanometers.

«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.

They sandwiched a 50 - nanometer - thick layer of insulating silicon nitride between silver on top and gold on the bottom.

The instrument — a scanning Kerr microscope — bounced femtosecond pulses of laser light off the surface of rectangular Ni80Fe20 samples, measuring 15 nanometers thick and grown on small strips of gold.

«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.»

On top of it they placed a metal electrode coated with a 10 - to 50 - nanometer - thick film of an insulating material.

Like turning the knob on a radio, the team adjusted the pulse so that, if the artificial horizon emitted any Hawking radiation, its wavelength would be between 800 and 900 nanometers, a range that could not be confused with other sources such as laser - induced fluorescence.

In a paper published in Science Advances, ICFO researchers Roland Terborg, Josselin Pello, Ilaria Mannelli, UPC Prof. at ICFO Juan P. Torres and ICREA Prof. at ICFO Valerio Pruneri, have built a novel low - cost, compact on - chip microscope, made with consumer electronic products, capable of simultaneously measuring nanometer - thick changes over a large volume (0.5 cm ^ 3) in transparent objects such as glass.

Even though we lose this sensitivity with age, our adult ears can still detect molecular displacements on the order of nanometers.

The solution involved adding a number of sinusoidal - shaped bumps of silicon, 40 nanometers thick, along one side of the waveguide, and similar bumps, made of a layer of germanium sandwiched with chrome, on the other side.

As novel light sources, carbon nanotubes of about 1 micrometer in length and 1 nanometer in diameter are positioned on metal contacts in transverse direction to the waveguide.

Running low - power laser light, akin to that from a typical laser pointer, through the rings generates a tunable response — either attractive or repulsive, depending on the wavelength — that changed the size of the gap between the rings by as much as 20 nanometers.

They managed to switch this plasmon propagation on and off, simply by applying an electrical voltage, demonstrating the control of light guided in channels smaller than one nanometer.

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

«The copper coating on the polymer separator is only 50 nanometers thick, about 500 times thinner than the separator itself,» said Wu, a postdoctoral fellow in the Cui group.