Sentences with phrase «with nanometre»

The 3D NanoChemiscope, which was developed at Empa, not only maps samples with nanometre precision, but for the first time can also provide precise information about which chemical elements are arranged where in a sample.

Using highly miniaturised segmented - style Fresnel lenses — the same design used in lighthouses for more than a century — which enable exceptionally high - quality images of a single atom, the scientists have been able to detect position displacements with nanometre precision in three dimensions.

Not exact matches

Lin's team has now come up with an alternative using quantum dots — light - sensitive, semiconducting particles just a few nanometres in diameter.

For now, such technology can cloak only objects with a surface area of a few square micrometres and a few hundred nanometres deep.

By creating nanometre - thick arrays of metal - organic frameworks, Zhao's team was able to expose the pores and increase the surface area for electrical contact with the water.

Daniel Branton and his colleagues placed carbon nanotubes onto a silicon wafer, cooled it to about -163 °C and sprayed it with water, causing an 80 - nanometre - thick layer of ice to form.

The researchers succeeded in changing the DNA of the E coli bacteria in such a way that the substance CB [8](a small molecule of two nanometres in size with a namederived from the resemblance of this molecule with a pumpkin of the family of Cucurbitaceae) attaches to a protein on the cell membrane.

With the help of a precision - made mask, Garnier's team lays down a 40 - nanometre film of a polymer semiconductor between the two top contacts, the source and drain.

«This force of one hundred femtoNewton that presses on a molecule of one nanometre can be compared with the force of a grain of sand on a person's shoulder.

With an output of 50 watts — 1000 times more powerful than a typical handheld unit — the laser is tuned to sodium atoms» strong yellow emission at 589 nanometres.

Natural chromophores have a maximum absorption of around 560 nanometres, but one of the team's 11 modified chromophores was able to absorb red light with a wavelength of around 644 nm — tantalisingly close to infrared, which starts at about 750 nm (Science, doi.org/jxn).

«The protein found in jellyfish is excited by blue or violet light of 390 nanometres, and shines with a green glow,» says Youvan.

Pulses with a wavelength near 597 nanometres, which have precisely the energy needed to make an antiproton jump between orbits, were followed almost immediately by an annihilation signal.

But not all the sunlight would be absorbed by this electrode: light with a wavelength longer than 600 nanometres isn't absorbed by the rust - coloured water in the top cell so would pass through to strike the lower electrode, powering the production of hydrogen.

The night - time emission of green light, with a wavelength of 557.7 nanometres, was detected in the Earth's upper atmosphere more than a century ago.

Daniel Branton and his colleagues placed single - walled carbon nanotubes onto a silicon wafer, cooled it to about -163 °C and sprayed it with water, causing an 80 - nanometre - thick layer of ice to form.

The spin wave circuit that the researchers built, consists of a 200 nanometre thin layer of yttrium iron garnet (a mineral and magnetic insulator, YIG in short), with a conducting platinum strip on top of that on both sides.

Steele and colleagues used Raman spectroscopy — a technique that scatters laser light off a substance to identify its structure and chemical make - up — to pinpoint the MMC in the rocks with a precision of around 360 nanometres.

Metamaterials extend this concept with artificial structures that might be nanometres across for visible light, or as large as a few millimetres for microwave radiation.

For the experiment, the team built a tiny battery with a lithium - cobalt anode and a cathode made from tin oxide nanowires just 200 nanometres wide.

With the methods used, it is now possible to study not only ore particles on the ocean floor in the range of millimetre to nanometre, but also the smallest fossils and living organisms, such as micro-organisms.

This is the case in Stupp's polymer, so a beam of infrared laser light (with wavelength 1068 nanometres) shone through it will emerge in the green part of the spectrum with a wavelength of 534 nanometres.

Then 75 billionths of a second later, a second pulse excites the niobium ions to produce a pulse of X-rays with a wavelength of 20.6 nanometres.

Kumar Wickramasinghe, who developed the microscope with Yves Martin at IBM's Thomas J. Watson Research Center in New York, says the probe feels the surface from a height of between 3 and 5 nanometres and detects features as small as 10 atoms across.

Like leaves, biofilms also have rough structures both on the micrometre and the nanometre scale, making them resistant to wetting with water.

If laser light with a wavelength 1064 nanometres — which is in the infrared region of the spectrum — is shone on a crystal of the material, some of the light emerges as green light with a wavelength of precisely 532 nanometres.

«These electric dipoles interact with each other over fairly large distances, a good fraction of a micron, or 1,000 nanometres.

The bonding properties of the saccharide coating can now be switched using this method: if the researchers irradiate their system with light with a wavelength of 365 nanometres, considerably fewer pathogenic bacteria cells can adhere to the synthetic surface.

However, there are no zeolites with a pore size large enough to hold a buckyball, which has a diameter of about 1 nanometre.

In each test, the researchers used a blue laser light with a wavelength of 458 nanometres to create photoluminescence.

The team coated a silicon wafer with a layer of upright nanotubes, spaced 100 nanometres apart through a process called chemical vapour deposition.

They coated one side of a 4.5 - millimetre - diameter lens with a gold film 30 nanometre thick, and laid the lens — gold - side down — on a flat glass slide which was also coated with film of gold.

For their study, the Bern research groups used a new microscope, which allowed them to look into trypanosomes and their mitochondria with a resolution of less than 50 nanometres.

Each tiny ink dot used to print each letter would have to be reduced to the size of just 1000 atoms, he calculated — a square with sides of just 9 nanometres.

With the aid of state - of - the - art electron microscopy, the researchers discovered that the function of the nanometre - scale catalyst particles is decisively determined by their geometric shape and atomic structure.

His current research interests include biochemical sensors based on AFM Technology; Chemical surface identification on the nanometre scale with AFM; Nanomechanics, nanorobotics and molecular devices at the ultimate limits of measurement and fabrication; Atomic Force microscopy research on insulators; Single Spin Magnetic Resonance Force Microscopy (MRFM) and Self - organization and self - assembly at the nanometre scale.

Because the current depends very sensitively on this distance, by scanning the tip over the sample surface it is possible to obtain an image of the surface with a resolution of only a few nanometres.

We aim to push its limits on all fronts to establish a technique which combines nanometre 3D resolution with maximum labelling efficiencies, absolute measurements of protein copy numbers, precise multi-colour measurements, high - throughput for large scale statistics and novel data analysis approaches, to address the vast array of exciting biological questions at the nanoscale, which are becoming accessible only now.

With length of several micrometres the wires can exceed the length of the cells by far, but their diameter is only a few nanometres.

Apparently those leaked specs in June were spot on, which would mean a specially built ARM multicore chip clocked at 3.1 GHz with a custom 28 nanometre graphics processor by graphic specialists AMD and 5 GB of RAM.

Human eyes perceive blue when observing light with a wavelength between 450 and 495 nanometres.

Since 2009 however Eliasson has been conducting a series of Colour Experiment Paintings with the intention of reproducing in paint, the exact colours for each nanometre of the visible light spectrum.

Eliasson has used various methods in his own exploration of the «photon in art», from working with chemists to create detailed colour spectrums via each nanometre of light, and many other unique processes to boot.

Aerosols A suspension of airborne solid or liquid particles, with a typical size between a few nanometres and 10 μm that reside in the atmosphere for at least several hours.

A suspension of airborne solid or liquid particles, with a typical size between a few nanometres and 10 μm that reside in the atmosphere for at least several hours.