Sentences with phrase «small micrometer»

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Stereocilia are extremely small, less than a half a micrometer in diameter, which is about the wavelength of a visible light.

Coarse particulate matter (PM10 - 2.5) measures from 2.5 to 10 micrometers; fine particulate pollution (PM2.5) measure 2.5 micrometers or smaller.

A plasmonic detector that is directly coupled to a silicon optical waveguide and smaller than one micrometer was developed by KIT.

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.

Scientists imaged more than 1,700 mouse brains (injected with a tracer virus) at resolutions less than a micrometer, or 50 times smaller than a human hair.

As the scanner pokes its prey (here, a small, green plastic frog) with a needle - like probe driven by a tiny motor, a light sensor detects contact between probe and object with an accuracy of 30 micrometers, and a linear actuator translates the rotation of the Lego gears into linear distance at a resolution of 6.25 micrometers.

In 2012, she published the first study to note a faster - than - normal cognitive decline among people exposed to higher levels of particulates, both those smaller than 2.5 micrometers and even larger ones that are thought to be less harmful.

Fine particulates (less than 2.5 micrometers wide, or about a quarter of the width of the smallest grain of pollen) are of greatest concern because they can penetrate deeply into the lungs to reach the body's innermost nooks and crannies.

Nanowires are very small — about 2 micrometers high (1 micrometer is a thousandth of a millimetre) and 10 - 500 nanometers in diameter (1 nanometer is a thousandth of a micrometer).

In another twist, most (but not all) of the PAH in the Hypatia matrix has been transformed into diamonds smaller than one micrometer, which are thought to have been formed in the shock of impact with the Earth's atmosphere or surface.

Researchers studying a fossil specimen of the trilobite Triarthrus eatoni spotted something odd just next to the animal's head: a collection of small (about 200 micrometers across), round objects (in light blue, above).

By the 1930s, the Owens Lake playa was the largest source in North America of PM10: particulate matter measuring 10 micrometers or less, small enough to readily enter human lungs.

The 10 - micrometer - wide microbe has a small eyespot, which Deisseroth describes as «kind of cute,» that spins around to detect light.

Xiao used battery powered aerosol monitors to measure indoor concentrations of fine particulate matter, or particles 2.5 micrometers in diameter or smaller, which consists mainly of black carbon and organic carbon.

The new facility should be able to produce millions of devices a year, he says, with shapes as small as a micrometer in size — 10 times larger than circuits in silicon microchips.

That's the lesson one researcher is taking away from a microscopic analysis of the fairy wasp (Megaphragma mymaripenne), which at a mere 200 micrometers in length is one of the world's smallest animals (shown compared to a paramecium and amoeba above).

From this light signature they deduced that the satellites are made of fine - grained dust (smaller than a micrometer [3]-RRB-.

A device for precisely positioning small objects using acoustic waves has now been used to position fragile protein crystals a few micrometers or less in size in the path of a crystallography X-ray beam.

«As a model small cell type, we used a cancer cell whose size is around 24 micrometers, and achieved 98.9 % purity, 90.7 % viability, and a 97.8 % success rate.»

The detector can measure features as small as 40 micrometers cross and 5 micrometers tall — about as well as the human fingertip.

Known as the Abbe diffraction limit, it meant that a researcher using visible light — the best method for studying biological samples — couldn't hope to see things smaller than about 0.2 micrometers, or millionths of a meter.

As a result, the EPA began to monitor and regulate particles as small as 10 micrometers, also called microns, in 1987, but did not get down to the level of 2.5 microns, as Perera had urged, until 1997, when standards were tightened.

The device can capture depths as small as a fraction of a micrometer, allowing printed letters, like these ones, to show up as 3D.

A device about the size of a soda can, it can register objects as small as two micrometers across.

Researchers at BYU are the first to 3D - print a viable microfluidic device small enough to be effective at a scale much less than 100 micrometers.

Their work has produced labs on a chip with flow channel cross sections as small as 18 micrometers by 20 micrometers.

The ratio indicates that smaller, micrometer - sized, dust particles dominate and larger dust particles are absent in the most prominent gap with a radius of 22 astronomical units.

Using high - energy x-rays to produce an MRI - like scan of the palm - of - your - hand - sized rock that holds the 305 - million - year - old fossil, researchers were able to discern anatomical details as small as 5 micrometers across.

The company's first chips, he says, were made in a semiconductor fabrication facility from 1995, in which the smallest features that could be inscribed on chips were 0.35 micrometers across.

The simulated image at left shows how the smaller particle size in Venusian cloud tops (compared to a typical 10 to 40 micrometers in terrestrial ones) causes the colored fringes to spread further apart than they would appear on Earth.

Ranging in length from 35 micrometers to 95 micrometers, they are the smallest protozoa in the rumen.

At 1.5 micrometers long, it is comparable in size to a small bacterium.

* 1: Cosmic dust consists of small solid particles composed of silicon, carbon, iron and other elements about the size of 0.1 micrometer.

This device is capable of observing extremely small microorganisms even at 10 micrometers — two to five times powerful than previous underwater microscopes, Washington Post reports.

The other set of studies, led by Destaillats working with Berkeley Lab scientists Lara Gundel and Jennifer Logue, will look at the particulate matter in thirdhand smoke, or PM2.5, particles smaller than 2.5 micrometers in size.

Cosmic dust is small solid particles consisted of silicon, carbon, iron and other elements with the size smaller than 1 micrometer.

One early version of electronic paper consists of a sheet of very small transparent capsules, each about 40 micrometers across.

The pixels are as small as 100 micrometers wide, giving the display a resolution of 300 dots per inch.

Particles smaller than 10 micrometers (called PM 10) are small enough to enter the lungs, where they can cause respiratory problems.

Two - thirds of that came in the smallest detectable size of 11 micrometers, thinner than a human hair.

As such, it represents the actual temperature of the water across a very small depth of approximately 20 micrometers....»

We are talking about extremely small (micrometer scale) spheres.

The LEDs are comprised of self - emitting micrometer scale LEDs that are much smaller than the typical LEDs used for TVs.

They have LEDs smaller than 100 micrometers — slimmer than the width of a human hair.

It features self - emitting MicroLED technology with micrometer scale LEDs that are much smaller than existing LEDs.

It replaces color filters with micrometer (µm) scale LEDs, which are much smaller than current LEDs, and serve as their own source of light.

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