Sentences with phrase «thin as an atom»

It may not seem like a material as thin as an atom could hide any surprises, but a research team led by scientists at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) discovered an unexpected magnetic property in a two - dimensional material.

Not exact matches

The colloidal thin films thus mimicked crystal phases of atoms, and the sample design permitted experimenters to record particle behaviors by video microscopy as they switched from one phase to another.

Through a process known as electron - beam deposition, the researchers have built a thin - film wafer from 13 stacked meta - atoms.

They bonded a thin layer of indium phosphide, a compound that acts as a medium for the laser, onto silicon sheets by exposing both materials to a blast of hot, electrically charged oxygen atoms; the indium phosphide was spiked with aluminum gallium indium arsenide to give it added speed.

The models showed that thinner carbon nanotubes with a relatively high concentration of nitrogen would perform best, as oxygen atoms readily bond to the carbon atom nearest the nitrogen.

«To put that challenge in perspective, an atom - thick thin film that is 5 centimeters wide is equivalent to a piece of paper that is as wide as a large city,» Cao said.

Magnetic charge ice is two - dimensional, meaning it consists of a very thin layer of atoms, and could be applied to other thin materials, such as graphene.

Internal specs are thin on the ground at the moment, although we know it's among the first devices to be based on Intel's 64 - bit quad - core Atom architecture, otherwise known as Moorefiled.

The awkwardly named tablet — which you might also see written occasionally as «Dell Venue 8 7000 series» — is a thin little slice of heaven (all of 6 mm), running Android 4.4.4 and powered by an Intel Atom processor.

The Atmosphere progressively gets thinner, or «will contain less atoms and molecules» as altitude increases.