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- noun physics A strip of
silicon carbide , a few hundrednanometres in width, whosevibrational frequency varies inproportion to themass of objects resting on it; it can detect masses as small as oneattogram
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The detector for the movements of the nanocantilever is separated from the nanocantilever by less than the wavelength of light, just one-fivehundredth of a hair's diameter.
Next Big Future bw 2010
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With the nanocantilever, as it is called, surfaces will be mapped a lot faster and with higher precision.
Next Big Future bw 2010
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