The «teats» are actually receptacles containing aluminium, gallium and arsenic; the «udders» are high - vacuum reaction chambers in which
ultrathin layers of crystal are grown on circular wafers of gallium arsenide, 75 or 100 millimetres across.
A team led by physicists Norman Booth of the University of Oxford, United Kingdom, and Antonio Barone of the University of Naples, Italy, have constructed such a transistor out of
ultrathin layers of superconductors, insulators, and normal metals.
Reichert says that such
ultrathin layers of water are a common phenomenon, and understanding the behavior of HDL and LDL water may lead to insights into water's behavior in diverse situations, from ice skating to ion movement across biological cell walls.
The new structure consists of a stack of
ultrathin layers of two alternating materials where the thickness of each layer is precisely controlled.
Roberta spent days, using tiny pliers and a glass knife, slicing
ultrathin layers of the fly's internal organs and preparing them to view through an electron microscope.
Sandwiched inside is a two - part material: nano - PE that is coated on one side with IR - absorbing (and emitting) black carbon, and on the other side
an ultrathin layer of copper that only weakly absorbs and emits IR.
Ms. Parker remembered how the director let her ask a Nobel Prize - winning professor to extract graphene (
an ultrathin layer of carbon) from a William Blake drawing and make a sensor that was used to ignite the opening - night fireworks.
Not exact matches
The secret is an
ultrathin liquid - crystal
layer sandwiched between two
layers of glass.
The scientists first grew carpets
of microscopic wires
of gallium nitride, a light - emitting crystalline material, on an
ultrathin mesh
of graphene, which is a
layer of carbon atoms that is flexible, conductive and tough.
Aubert cut samples
of the cave popcorn, shaving the calcite into
ultrathin layers in a process he calls micro-excavating.
Ultrathin layers made
of Tungsten and Selenium have been created at the Vienna University
of Technology; experiments show that they may be used as flexible, semi-transparent solar cells.
The team now reports that graphene, with its
ultrathin, Teflon - like properties, can be sandwiched between a wafer and its semiconducting
layer, providing a barely perceptible, nonstick surface through which the semiconducting material's atoms can still rearrange in the pattern
of the wafer's crystals.
Superlattices are currently built by manually stacking the
ultrathin layers on top
of each other.
The study group has created
ultrathin sheets composed
of black phosphorous
layers, which feature strong light absorption in the near - infrared as well as ultraviolet and visible light ranges, combined with lanthanum titanate
layers.
The new keyboard will take the typing experience that users loved from Logitech's
Ultrathin Keyboard Cover and «add an extra
layer of protection.»