Sentences with phrase «smaller than the width of a human hair»

The team's novel fabrication technique involves patterning a solar absorber with tiny holes with diameters less than 400 nanometers (that's roughly 200 times smaller than the width of a human hair), cut into the absorber at regular intervals.

The particles found measure just five micrometres or less; approximately 20 times smaller than the width of a human hair.

Hudson's laboratory used laser light to cool tiny amounts of the reactant atoms and molecules to an extremely low temperature — one one - thousandth of a degree above absolute zero — and then levitate them in a space smaller than the width of a human hair, inside of a vacuum chamber.

The device works by using periodic nanostructures, 10,000 times smaller than the width of a human hair, to separate the different frequencies of light from each other.

CNTs are much smaller than the width of a human hair and naturally form «forests» when they are created in large numbers.

In contrast, perovskite solar cells depend on a layer of tiny crystals — each about 1,000 times smaller than the width of a human hair — made of low - cost, light - sensitive materials.

Recent advances in optical physics have made it possible to use fluorescent microscopy to study complex structures smaller than 200 nanometres (nm)-- around 500 times smaller than the width of a human hair.

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.

(A nanometer is one billionth of a meter, or roughly 80,000 times smaller than the width of a human hair.)

Tiny nanoparticles, far smaller than the width of a human hair, might help the body's own immune system fight tumors, a new study shows.

Each capsule is just 20 nanometers across; that's a thousand times smaller than the width of a human hair.

Working in collaboration with Douglas Goff, Ph.D., and colleagues at the University of Guelph (Canada), Zuluaga Gallego and Velásquez Cock extracted cellulose nanofibrils (CNFs), which are thousands of times smaller than the width of a human hair, from ground - up banana rachis.

The new work in Nature Communications overcame fundamental barriers in utilizing LED technology on monolayer semiconductors, allowing for such devices to be scaled from sizes smaller than the width of a human hair up to several millimeters.

State - of - the - art atomic force microscopes (AFMs) are designed to capture images of structures as small as a fraction of a nanometer — a million times smaller than the width of a human hair.

«They [quantum dots] are more than five thousand times smaller than the width of a human hair, which enables them to straddle the worlds of quantum and classical physics and gives them useful optical properties,» said project lead Ted Sargent, a professor in The Edward S. Rogers Sr..

The team — led by Professor of Chemical Physics at Trinity, Jonathan Coleman, one of the world's leading nanoscientists — infused rubber bands with graphene, a nano - material derived from pencil lead which is 10,000 times smaller than the width of a human hair.

The size of these pores (less than 5 nanometers, nm) is 5,000 times smaller than the width of a human hair.

The membrane is so small that impurities 900,000 times smaller than the width of a human hair are eliminated.

Not exact matches

But evolution has worked on much smaller scales too, producing finely honed nanostructures — parts less than a millionth of a meter across, or smaller than 1 / 20th of the width of a human hair — that help animals climb, slither, camouflage, flirt, and thrive.

Scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed a new device that measures the motion of super-tiny particles traversing distances almost unimaginably small — shorter than the diameter of a hydrogen atom, or less than one - millionth the width of a human hair.

But what could you use if you wanted to create something really small — a structure less than the width of a human hair?

These modifications give SIR - PAM a depth of field 32 times larger than what PAM could achieve while also improving its resolution to as small as 90 nanometers (1 / 1000th the width of a human hair).

Jan. 3, 2018 - Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) researchers have discovered novel ways to extend the capabilities of two - photon lithography (TPL), a high - resolution 3D printing technique capable of producing nanoscale features smaller than one - hundredth the width of a human hair.

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