Sentences with phrase «on ytterbium»

Efforts to improve the intensity of these emissions have focused on ytterbium (Yb) rare - earth dopants, as they are easily excitable with standard lasers.

Not exact matches

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.
Three of those elements — ytterbium, erbium, and terbium — were simply given additional variants on the name of Ytterby, while the other three were named holmium (for Stockholm), scandium, and thulium (both from the Latin for Scandinavia), in the nationalistic fashion then in favor.
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