Sentences with phrase «trillionths of a billionth of a second»

Ultrafast lasers have measured how long electrons take to be booted from a helium atom with zeptosecond precision — trillionths of a billionth of a second

For the first time, physicists have measured changes in an atom to the level of zeptoseconds, or trillionths of a billionth of a second — the smallest division of time yet observed.

For the first time ever, laser physicists have recorded an internal atomic event with an accuracy of a trillionth of a billionth of a second.

A zeptosecond is a trillionth of a billionth of a a second (10 - 21 s).

Not exact matches

The Illinois scientists had the technological advantage of super high - speed (at the pico - second, 1 trillionth of a second) and super high - resolution (at the nano - meter, 1 billionth of a meter) «video cameras» making use of neutrons to take movies of the molecules.

He added, «I think there is a very large unexplored space in terms of using electrons at the picosecond (trillionths of a second) and nanosecond (billionths off a second) time scales to directly image materials.»