Sentences with phrase «order of millimeters»

Through careful analysis the TUM researchers could now, for the first time ever, include minute seasonal variations in the coordinates on the order of millimeters.

The penetration depth of most of the IR, in particular, is order of a millimeter or less — mostly less.

Not exact matches

And if this beam is also focused into a speck with a three millimeter diameter, then we get an intensity of light an order higher than the intensity of light close to the sun's surface, which has a radiation power of about 20 gigawatts a square meter.

These expensive materials can be used here because the components are tiny: of the order of square millimeters.

At present, metamaterials work best for longer - wavelength radiation such as radio waves and microwaves, which require elements that are on the order of tens of millimeters.

Scientists have cooked up a chemical concoction that can patch a 9 - millimeter - wide hole in a sheet of plastic, a self - repair orders of magnitude larger than ever demonstrated before.

The world's smallest spectrometer has successfully measured tiny deformations of Earth's crust, of the order of one millimeter, over a length of one thousand kilometers.

Through the development of a technique called photoacoustic tomography, Wang was able to conquer this limit and advance the imaging depth by nearly two orders of magnitude, from one millimeter to several centimeters, an improvement that could enable doctors to acquire high - resolution images through a patient's skin using light.

Their name is derived from their size, since the diameter of a nanotube is on the order of a few nanometers (approximately 50,000 times smaller than the width of a human hair), while they can be up to several millimeters in length.

This model showed that in order to detect tumors 5 millimeters in diameter or smaller in humans, the researchers would need to improve the system's sensitivity by at least one order of magnitude.

There, the uplift of the mountains is extremely rapid (on the order of 1 centimeter per year, whereas in other areas 5 millimeters per year is more typical) and the river drops by 2 kilometers in elevation as it flows through the famous Tsangpo Gorge, known by some as the Yarlung Tsangpo Grand Canyon because it is so deep and long.

The only way we can limit the exposure is to just deliver to a cubic millimeter of the brain, and in order to do that, you have to have extremely small cannulas,» Cima says.

A human brain has something on the order of a million cubic millimeters, which means you'd need around two million terabytes to store a map of its wires.

The researchers made lenses about a few millimeters thick with a magnification power of 160 times and a resolution of about 4 microns (millionths of a meter)-- two times lower in optical resolution than many commercial microscopes, but more than three orders of magnitude lower in cost.

For more displacement, SRT engineers bored out the diameter of the cylinders in the HEMI ® by 3.5 millimeters each in order to increase the total displacement to 6.1 litres from 5.7 litres.

We model systems on the scale of centimeters using control volumes on the order of fractions of millimeters and time steps on the order of fractions of a second.

Further, when mixing occurs, the first mixing will be between the micron layer and the mm layer — but we already know a) that in fact the mm layer is actually cooler than the water below it; and b) that the heat capacity of a layer measured in microns is three orders of magnitude less than that of one measured in millimeters.