Sentences with phrase «then focused a beam»

Conventional rockets would carry the miniature probes into Earth orbit, and a synchronized array of ground - based lasers would then focus its beams on individual sails, imparting enough force to accelerate each probe to 20 percent of the speed of light.

The research team then focused a beam of vacuum ultraviolet light from the synchrotron on the heated gas mixture that knocked away electrons (an effect known as ionization).

Not exact matches

And if this beam is also focused into a speck with a three millimeter diameter, then we get an intensity of light an order higher than the intensity of light close to the sun's surface, which has a radiation power of about 20 gigawatts a square meter.

The images then showed that the graphene plasmons focus away from the antenna, similar to the light beam that is concentrated with a lens or concave mirror.

They then dragged each bead across a cell using optical tweezers, a technique that employs a highly focused laser beam to physically move microscopic objects.

And then, if a narrow and focused gamma - ray beam directly hits the Earth, it would be a catastrophic impact like completely wiping out the atmospheres from the Earth.

The microscope scans a sample with a focused beam of electrons, and then measures how the electrons interact with the atoms in the sample.

«What is really interesting to me is that you can potentially focus the beam down to a small size, and then you would really have a system that competes with X-ray free - electron lasers,» Minor said, which opens up the possibility of electron imaging of single biological particles.

I kept my toe in and got past him, cleared a few car lengths then pulled onto the correct side of the road, at which point Mr Focus moved to phase two of his disgruntlement plan, which was to flash his high beams.

With a laser - beam focus, he identifies his targets and then cuts straight to the kill.

Von Rydingsvard's unique visual vocabulary and well - established oeuvre demonstrate her mastery as she harnesses, shapes, and assembles cedar beams, which are then sculpted through her focused and detailed cuts into familiar forms.