Experience
with a micrometer...
It replaces color filters
with micrometer (µm) scale LEDs, which are much smaller than current LEDs, and serve as their own source of light.
It features self - emitting MicroLED technology
with micrometer scale LEDs that are much smaller than existing LEDs.
I need to measure the thickness of my valve lifters (and then do a feeler gauge test but that is not done
with a micrometer) because I didn't keep track of my valve lifter before taking apart.
I've been using it for maybe 6 weeks now on my eye and mouth, and I haven't measured
with my micrometer but I swear that lines are lessening!
Dated to 3.43 billion years ago in sandstone from the Strelley Pool Formation in Western Australia, the microstructures were found
with micrometer - sized pyrite crystals (fool's gold, an iron - sulfur mineral), as would be expected as the metabolic by - products of sulfur - based life that employ «sulphate - reduction and sulphur - disproportionation pathways.»
The researchers demonstrated on - the - fly sampling of a gun bullet profile
with micrometer accuracy.
By measuring on many locations
with micrometer spacing between the measurement points, we can construct a two - dimensional image of the surface's repellency, called a wetting map,» explains Professor Quan Zhou from Aalto University School of Electrical Engineering.
Researchers generally grow wafers on top of the c - face of a seed crystal, but the end - products tend to be riddled
with micrometer - sized holes.
This isn't something you can eyeball and make an assumption about... it's something you actually have to measure
with micrometers to ensure accuracy.
Konrad can not see the chimneys themselves from his home in Minamiyamate, but for months now his thoughts have frequently wandered to the factory where Hiroko Tanaka spends her days measuring the thickness of steel
with micrometers, images of classrooms swooping into her thoughts the way memories of flight might enter the minds of broken - winged birds.
Not exact matches
Scanning electron microscope photograph of the ciliate Tiarina
with its 100 - 150
micrometer calcium carbonate (calcareous) shell containing the Symbiodinium cells (not visible here).
Scientists imaged more than 1,700 mouse brains (injected
with a tracer virus) at resolutions less than a
micrometer, or 50 times smaller than a human hair.
Fluorescently labeled synaptic vesicles inside the axons of cultured neurons were recorded
with stimulated emission depletion (STED) microscopy in a 2.5 -
micrometer by 1.8 -
micrometer field of view.
With ultrasound, «we can go centimeters deep and still see things with a spatial precision on the order of a hundred micrometers,» Shapiro s
With ultrasound, «we can go centimeters deep and still see things
with a spatial precision on the order of a hundred micrometers,» Shapiro s
with a spatial precision on the order of a hundred
micrometers,» Shapiro says.
It then combines
with pollutants from combustion — mainly nitrogen oxides and sulfates from vehicles, power plants and industrial processes — to create tiny solid particles, or aerosols, no more than 2.5
micrometers across, about 1/30 the width of a human hair.
As the scanner pokes its prey (here, a small, green plastic frog)
with a needle - like probe driven by a tiny motor, a light sensor detects contact between probe and object
with an accuracy of 30
micrometers, and a linear actuator translates the rotation of the Lego gears into linear distance at a resolution of 6.25
micrometers.
In another twist, most (but not all) of the PAH in the Hypatia matrix has been transformed into diamonds smaller than one
micrometer, which are thought to have been formed in the shock of impact
with the Earth's atmosphere or surface.
But there's a catch: Dragged down by interactions
with the metal and the insulator, most surface plasmons wane within a few
micrometers — too short a distance to make them useful.
With a diameter in the region of a
micrometer and a genome incorporating more than 1,100 genes, these giant viruses, which infect amoebas of the Acanthamoeba genus, had already largely encroached on areas previously thought to be the exclusive domain of bacteria.
To do so, they etched the surfaces to resemble a bed of nails,
with the heads of the nails — each 20
micrometers across — facing up.
Yu and colleagues melted silica glass to form a sphere
with a diameter of 182
micrometers.
The network will gather data on PM2.5, or particulate matter
with a diameter of 2.5
micrometers, in different locations around the country, the report said, citing a ministry statement.
By engravings using electron beam lithography, the waveguides of several
micrometers in length are provided
with finest cavities of a few nanometers in size.
High - contrast matter - wave interference fringes
with a period of ∼ 15
micrometers were observed after switching off the potential and letting the condensates expand for 40 milliseconds and overlap.
The new facility should be able to produce millions of devices a year, he says,
with shapes as small as a
micrometer in size — 10 times larger than circuits in silicon microchips.
Working
with the IIS Applied Microfluidic Laboratory of Professor Teruo Fujii, they developed a platform to generate a myriad of
micrometer - sized droplets containing random concentrations of reagents and then sandwich a single layer of them between glass slides.
The constant assembling and disassembling of actin comet tails on the surface of autophagosomes makes them move
with speeds of approximately 0.5
micrometers per second.
The nanoclusters — about 20,000 per square
micrometer — act like tiny bar magnets
with «spins» that can be oriented either randomly or in a coordinated manner.
After data processing, the echoes returned by the structures crossed by these waves can provide images
with unequalled spatial and temporal resolution: 80
micrometers and a few tens of milliseconds.
Microfluidics is all about manipulating tiny drops of fluid
with sizes between a
micrometer and a millimeter.
Several students in Flaherty's lab are currently exploring different ways of «coupling this chemistry directly
with reactions that use hydrogen peroxide for green oxidations within very short length scales,» that is,
micrometers away, Flaherty said.
Comparing the observed intensity of the polarized emissions
with the theoretical prediction, they determined that the size of the dust particles is at most 150
micrometers.
Simple sensors can tell a machine whether it is in contact
with something, but detectors that also sense texture tend either to be too complicated and delicate for commercial use or lack the spatial resolution needed to detect details dozens of
micrometers across.
An index measuring PM2.5, or particulate matter
with a diameter of 2.5
micrometers (PM2.5), reached a reading of 1,000 in some parts of Harbin, the gritty capital of northeastern Heilongjiang province and home to some 11 million people.
A pale beige polypropylene plastic embedded
with 25 -
micrometer particles of the resin is inserted into the tube in the form of a long - haired shag carpet sample and, almost immediately, CO2 levels inside the greenhouse begin a steady march downward as the resin binds CO2 to form bicarbonate, a kind of salt produced.
«Pushing a
micrometers - wide particle through the air
with a laser might be prone to distortion, if not outright failure, when even the slightest breeze wafts by,» GORT wrote.
They then submerged them in a mixture of silicone oil and water that they blasted
with ultrasonic sound waves to generate
micrometer - sized oil droplets.
The hole is encircled by a series of etched grooves,
with diameters of a few
micrometers.
The cell nucleus
with a faint blue periphery is 18 x 22
micrometers in size.
The diameters of the thinnest cables, however, are in the
micrometer range, as the light waves —
with a wavelength of around one
micrometer — must be able to oscillate unhindered.
The team's design consists of a circuit of coupled silicon waveguides that guide infrared light
with a wavelength of 1.5
micrometers.
In the prototype, the researchers coat the board
with a much denser array of tiny spheres, only a
micrometer high, made from a hydrophobic (water - repellent) material.
Barberet worked
with Michal Pomorski at CEA - LIST, who created the ultra-thin diamond sensor by slicing down and then plasma etching a commercially available, single - crystal diamond to about 1
micrometer thick.
Even
with a simple analysis, absolute calibration is achieved
with an equivalent Doppler precision of ∼ 9 meters per second at ∼ 1.5
micrometers — beyond state - of - the - art accuracy.
They began
with a a tiny mechanical paddle, or «quantum drum,» around 30
micrometers long that vibrates when set in motion at a particular range of frequencies.
Of 989 samples, he found five
with holes and 17
with an extremely thin bone (less than 100
micrometers thick, compared to about 1500
micrometers in normal ears).
Their work has produced labs on a chip
with flow channel cross sections as small as 18
micrometers by 20
micrometers.
They concentrated on something called PM2.5, particulate matter
with a diameter less than 2.5
micrometers.
The ratio indicates that smaller,
micrometer - sized, dust particles dominate and larger dust particles are absent in the most prominent gap
with a radius of 22 astronomical units.