Sentences with word «quadrillionth»

The magnitude of the shift in the starlight's wavelength — on the order of quadrillionths of a meter — together with the period of the wobble can be used to determine an exoplanet's mass and orbital distance from its star.

Now, we measure crisscrossing pulses of laser light with spectrometers to follow the molecular dynamics of biological objects in real time, as measured in quadrillionths of a second.

X-ray free - electron lasers, first realized a decade ago, produce the brightest X-rays on the planet, and scientists tap into these unique X-rays to explore matter at the atomic scale and observe processes that occur in just quadrillionths of a second.

Some of the phenomena researchers wish to explore take place in mere quadrillionths of a second.

Scaling up his system will require coordinating the firing of multiple lasers with nearly quadrillionth - of - a-second timing.

This means seeing how proteins, the building blocks of life, work in a few quadrillionths of a second.

Femtosecond lasers can deliver quadrillionths of second pulses of energy, and were already being successfully and widely made use of for cornea reshaping and the correcting of astigmatisms, farsightedness and nearsightedness.

In 1996, Berkeley Lab also logged the first demonstration of X-ray pulses lasting just quadrillionths of a second with a technique known as «inverse Compton scattering,» the report notes.

The graphic depicts the imaging of atomic scale features of the Photoactive Yellow Protein, with brilliant bursts of light lasting mere quadrillionths of a second.

A sequence of these images, which can capture processes that occur in just quadrillionths of a second, could provide new insight in how to make materials with custom properties and to enhance chemical reactions.

One electron weighs 2 x 10 - 30 pound, so a 50 - kilobyte e-mail weighs about two ten - thousandths of a quadrillionth of an ounce, about the weight of 21,000 lead atoms.

The technique distinguished the electron dynamics — which proceed faster than a quadrillionth of a second after laser excitation — from the comparatively slower lattice motion of the silicon atomic nuclei.

Delfyett now directs 15 students in six labs developing new lasers from semiconductors, generating pulses trillionths to quadrillionths of a second long.

«Extremely fast femtosecond (one - quadrillionth of a second) laser pulses record snapshots of the PSII crystals before they explode in the X-ray beam, a principle called «diffraction before destruction.»»

IT ALL happens in a femtosecond — a quadrillionth of a second.

This type of manipulation requires a powerful light source such as an ultrafast laser and would last for only a femtosecond, or one quadrillionth of a second.

Imagine being able to control events that happen in a quadrillionth of a second.

Even that is one - quadrillionth the energy necessary to create a false vacuum.

(A femtosecond is equal to one quadrillionth of a second.)

Using high - affinity anti-interferon - antibodies isolated from patients with a syndrome called APECED, the researchers were able to detect interferon - at attomolar concentrations, equivalent to just quadrillionths of a gram per milliliter of sample.

The reactions take only a few femtoseconds (quadrillionths of a second) or even merely a few hundred attoseconds (quintillionths of a second).

The high - energy optical lasers at MEC combined with LCLS's X-ray pulses — which last just femtoseconds, or quadrillionths of a second — allowed the scientists to directly measure the chemical reaction.

USP lasers emit brief but powerful light pulses that last only one femtosecond (a quadrillionth of a second) and, unlike continuous wave lasers, instantly vaporize any material without heat or residual damage to surrounding areas.

A year ago, they achieved an effect called superwicking — by which the texture of a material forces water to flow upward — on metal surfaces by etching them using extremely fast, quadrillionth of a second, high - energy laser pulses.

A femtosecond is a quadrillionth of a second, an almost unfathomably brief duration.

The research team found a new mechanism explaining how this reaction can occur in just tens of femtoseconds (quadrillionths of a second), before other competing effects can steal away their energy.

ONE quadrillionth of an inch.

A femtosecond is one quadrillionth of a second.

In 2012 the BELLA Center's laser set a record by delivering a petawatt (quadrillion watts) of power packed into pulses that measured 40 quadrillionths of a second in length and came at a rate of one per second.

Electrons will be used as a fast camera shutter to capture snapshots of samples as they change over femtoseconds, or quadrillionths of a second.

The timing control — in femto second, as in the quadrillionth of a second, helps you change the focus of the light received at different locations on the OPA chip.

In Science, «femtosecond» means one quadrillionth of a second.