They also developed a method to completely surround the nanowires with layers of 10 - nanometer -
thick gold films.
Not exact matches
Just one atom
thick, graphene can be folded like plastic
film, yet is stronger than diamond and conducts electricity better than copper or
gold
They coated one side of a 4.5 - millimetre - diameter lens with a
gold film 30 nanometre
thick, and laid the lens —
gold - side down — on a flat glass slide which was also coated with
film of
gold.
The thin -
film cell consists of layers of silver and
gold between the semiconductor layers, but the combined thickness is still only a few hundred nanometers
thick, compared to a piece of paper which is 100,000 nanometers
thick.
A
gold metal layer beaten out to a 100 Angstrom
thick film, is also not going to radiate like a solid; it is going to start looking decidedly more gas like, because of its extremely low thermal mass, so that a small radiation can result in a large Temperature drop (unless replenished from some continuous energy source).
How about a
gold film that is say one Angstom
thick or one nano metre
thick.