Sentence examples for of a wavelength from inspiring English sources

The main limit now is that an object has to be placed very close to the lens, within a fraction of a wavelength of light.

When a single molecule of one of those variants was excited with light of a wavelength of 488 nanometres (nm), the molecule began to blink.

Upon the electron's return to the ground state, an energy difference is emitted as ultraviolet light of a wavelength of 185 nanometres.

The mirror in Pecten is a multilayer structure made of alternating layers of guanine and cytoplasm, and each layer is a quarter of a wavelength (about 0.1 μm in the visible spectrum) thick.

The need to make accurate measurements of lengths in his pendulum researches, in turn, led him to make a pioneer determination of the length of the metre in terms of a wavelength of light (1877 79).

When the rotating beam pointed east, the two sets of waves were out of phase by 90° (one quarter of a wavelength); when the beam pointed south, the phase difference was 180°; and so on.

And when Dr Anderson injected the modified vesicles into mice and then shone ultraviolet light of a wavelength that can pass through flesh at some of them, he found the tactic worked.

In a phase-contrast microscope the phase difference between light that is diffracted by a specimen and light that is direct and undeflected is one-quarter of a wavelength or less.

By finding two points at which the short circuit gives maximum absorption of the signal, it is possible to measure directly a distance equal to one-half of a wavelength.

The element spacing of the ODA is half of a wavelength.

An environment with multipath fading and interference generates signal strength variations over distances of a wavelength.