By engravings using electron beam lithography, the waveguides of
several micrometers in length are provided with finest cavities of a few nanometers in size.
By measuring the effect for different material thicknesses in the range of a few nanometers up to
several micrometers as well as for different temperatures, the scientists have found characteristic behavior.
Not exact matches
The new electrode grid, developed by a team of researchers at the University of California San Diego and Massachusetts General Hospital, is about a thousand times thinner — 6
micrometers versus
several millimeters thick — than clinical electrode grids.
A paper in Science Advances by Rice engineers Ashok Veeraraghavan, Jacob Robinson, Richard Baraniuk and their labs describes a wide - field microscope thinner than a credit card, small enough to sit on a fingertip and capable of
micrometer resolution over a volume of
several cubic millimeters.
Several students in Flaherty's lab are currently exploring different ways of «coupling this chemistry directly with reactions that use hydrogen peroxide for green oxidations within very short length scales,» that is,
micrometers away, Flaherty said.
However,
several obstacles remain to be overcome, in particular that of miniaturization: optical fiber makes it difficult to confine light within volumes of less than a
micrometer (10 - 6 meters).
«At lengths of one
micrometer and a diameter of
several hundred nanometers, these tubes have reached the size of some bacteria,» explains Hendrik Dietz.
They have to neatly pack a
several meter - long thread of genetic material into a nucleus that measures only five
micrometers across.
The team «wrote» on the membranes with an AFM probe in water to create a series of peptoid - free linear gaps tens of nanometers in width and
several nanometers to
micrometers in length.
A grid - format picture capture system allowed the monitoring of living hESC cultures ranging in size from a few hundred
micrometers to cell colonies of
several millimetres at a defined picture capture cycle rate.
Aerosols - A collection of airborne solid or liquid particles, with a typical size between 0.01 and 10
micrometer (~ 0.00000039 and ~ 0.00039 inch) that reside in the atmosphere for at least
several hours.