Sentences with phrase «smaller than an electron»

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They accepted the notion that the entire observable universe — 100 billion galaxies, each stuffed with 100 billion stars, stretching out more than 10 billion light - years in all directions — was once squashed into a space far smaller than a single electron.

An electron may have no meaningful property of size but could be thought of as 10 million times smaller than the nucleus.

For a monopole with twice the minimum charge, Rajantie and Gould determined that magnetic monopoles must be more massive than about 10 billion electron volts, going by data from collisions of lead nuclei in the Super Proton Synchrotron, a smaller accelerator at CERN.

The Electron rocket, smaller and cheaper than most of its commercial competitors, has put three satellites into orbit

To their surprise, they found that the thermal conductivity attributed to the electrons is ten times smaller than what would be expected from the Wiedemann - Franz Law.

Using circuits that control photons rather than electrons, individual components can be made far smaller and support immense information bandwidths.

Even though electrons entered only at the 1D atomic edge of the graphene sheet, the contact resistance was remarkably low, reaching 100 ohms per micron of contact width — a value smaller than what is typically achieved for contacts at the graphene top surface.

Because a proton or a neutron is on the order of a million times smaller than an atom, nuclear fission and fusion typically require energies on the order of millions of electron volts (MeV).

Electron tomograms can be obtained from much smaller volumes than with X-ray-based techniques.

In a series of ever - more - sensitive experiments over the past 30 years, researchers have established that if the shape of the electron has any distortion at all, the bulge must be smaller than 1 thousand trillion trillionths of a millimeter (10 - 27 mm).

The spatial elongation of nuclei in a vibration is much smaller than the distance between atoms, the latter being determined by the distribution of electrons.

The detector essentially fits on a tabletop, and the space in which electrons are detected is smaller than a postage stamp.

First proposed in the 1980s, a quantum computer harnesses the principles of quantum mechanics (the physics of very small things like electrons and photons) to process information significantly faster than traditional computers.

But for the physicist interested in electrons, which are far smaller, lighter, and faster than the atomic nuclei they swarm around, that timescale is just too slow.

Within porous silicon, electrons and holes are confined in a small space, and they attract one another more strongly than in bulk silicon.

As reported recently in Nature, physicists at the Weizmann Institute of Science used a similar trick to measure the interaction between the smallest possible magnets — two single electrons — after neutralizing magnetic noise that was a million times stronger than the signal they needed to detect.

With much shorter wavelengths than photons of visible light, electron beams can be used to observe objects hundreds of times smaller than those that can be resolved with an optical microscope.

Iron atoms, which have a nucleus with smaller positive charge than copper, exert less pull on the circulating electrons.

Upending accepted theory, he discovered that light could be transmitted very efficiently through holes smaller than its own wavelength with the involvement of surface plasmons, the interaction of light with electron waves on metal surfaces.

The method employs cryo - electron microscopy to diffract extremely small 3 - D protein crystals, a million to 100 million times smaller in volume (100 times per side) than used in a traditional X-ray crystallography experiment.

While most LCDs still use amorphous silicon (a-Si), many high - ppi LCDs use low - temperature polysilicon (LTPS), which has considerably higher electron mobility than a-Si, allowing the circuitry to be made much smaller.