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- noun Plural form of
nanometre .
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The most advanced transistors today are around 30 – 40 nanometres which is approaching the physical limit for such devices.
Memristors: the 4th electronic component « Anglican Samizdat 2010
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Memristors act as tiny (very tiny – around 3 nanometres) switches.
Memristors: the 4th electronic component « Anglican Samizdat 2010
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His team has succeeded in creating the material in particles measuring five-to-20 nanometres (a five-billionth to 20-billionth of a metre) in diameter.
Researchers Discover ‘Super Disc’ Material | Impact Lab 2010
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Their wings contain small projections, spaced about 200 nanometres a nanometre is equivalent to one billionth of a metre apart, which allow 98% of light to pass through them.
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NANOPOOL: The flexible and breathable glass coating is approximately 100 nanometres thick 500 times thinner than a human hair, and so it is completely undetectable.
Archive 2010-01-31 Bill Crider 2010
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The one thing they have never done is get us to really long wavelengths, like excitation beyond 600 nanometres.
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Haemoglobin absorbs quite severely below 600 nanometres, so you want to be above 600 nanometres to avoid the blood absorbance as much as possible.
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So, say you want the full visible spectrum, that would be a small fraction of 400 nanometres.
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The leak-free transistor is made from a "nano-ribbon" of graphene less than 10 nanometres wide and just a single carbon atom thick (0.1 nm).
Atom-Thick Carbon Transistor May Replace Silicon | Impact Lab 2007
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Drs Hiroyuki Nishide, Hiroaki Konishi and Takeo Suga at Waseda University have designed the battery – which consists of a redox-active organic polymer film around 200 nanometres thick.
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