Sentences with phrase «thin sheets of glass»

As the size of an epaper display increases, so does it susceptibility to physical damage; a 31.2» eink panel, for example, is in essence only a 1 mm (0.04 in) thin sheet of glass.

Not exact matches

His prototype, named Multi-toe, is made up of thin layers of silicone and clear acrylic on top of a rigid glass sheet.

Newton was sufficiently encouraged by this to offer the society another paper on light, which included a description of the way coloured rings of light (now known as Newton's rings) are produced when a lens is separated from a flat sheet of glass by a thin film of air.

The heart of the underwater imaging system is a camera, a pinhole array to admit light (a thin metal sheet with precise, laser - cut holes), a glass diffuser, and mirrors.

Nature's stained - glass windows are buried in Antarctic ice: Polarizing filters reveal the orientation of crystal grains in thin sections of ice pulled up at the West Antarctic Ice Sheet Divide.

As the bomb exploded with an energy equivalent to 20 kilotons of TNT, the sand underneath it melted, producing a thin sheet of mostly green glass, dubbed trinitite.

Would it not be possible to create a combo windshield, thin sheet of plexiglass at the top of glass or the opposite.

The device sports a metal frame which is placed in - between two sheets of glass, and its bezels are even thinner than last year.

By contrast, and in spite of Goldberg's pedestrian choice of materials, the front space has a defiantly monumental feel: set on coffee - coloured carpeting, an army of ornamental glass bowls filled with water are caught, as if suffocating, under a thin sheet of sheer plastic weighed down with gold sequins.

The works are fashioned from the same small handful of materials and shapes: tubes of stainless steel; circular and rectangular sheets of transparent and reflective glass; thin lines cutting out, carved into, or painted on to hard surfaces.

A master of collodion wet - plate photography Cauchi's series of ambrotypes depict sheets of crumpled paper — transferring their detailed, three - dimensionality onto a thin, flat sheet of glass.

Referring to the 1956 textbook Vacuum Deposition of Thin Films, he purchased a vacuum chamber and coated sheets of glass with laminates and metallic films.

The one open face is left stark and bare, glazed from floor to ceiling with only thin metal supports spanning to carry large sheets of glass.

The device sports a metal frame which is placed in - between two sheets of glass, and its bezels are even thinner than last year.

Its increased shock resistances lets manufacturers use thinner sheets of protective glass on their devices, and reduce their profile overall.