'small pillar' is a perfectly correct and usable phrase in written English.
It can be used any time you need to describe a pillar that is relatively diminutive in size. For example, "The small pillar held up the archway despite its modest size."
Dating from the end of the 7th or the beginning of the 6th century bce is a famous cippus (small pillar) from the Roman Forum; it is inscribed vertically on its four faces, in boustrophedon style.
The company has already begun making its microprocessors using a new 3-D transistor design, called a Finfet (for fin field-effect transistor), which is based around a remarkably small pillar, or fin, of silicon that rises above the surface of the chip.
Recent micropillar experiments have shown strong size effects at small pillar diameters.
The results show that an overall burst-instability may occur due to a large gob width or a small pillar width.
Increasing the inter-pillar gap size from 1 to 6 μm for surfaces with small pillar sizes of 1 and 2 μm resulted in decreased proliferation and in more elongated cells with long pseudopodial protrusions.
We report on the practical limitations of the current state-of-the-art in micro-fabrication technology to produce the small pillar sizes that are needed to obtain high efficiency pillar array columns.
Dividing the living room from the hallway is a small, pillar-like wall covered in a black woven material made of leather, wool and Lurex, created by Charles Schambourg, whose company in Brussels specializes in woven leather.
The small pillars have also had 26m (85ft) walls added to increase the target area for the pilgrims' stones and so prevent them jostling each other for position.
The researchers made microchips decorated with small pillars of magnetic metal just 50 nanometers high and roughly 100 nanometers wide.
Focal adhesion complexes were well developed on small pillars; thus, submicron architecture is important for proper focal adhesion formation [2].
In this paper, we propose a numerical model supporting the previously proposed explanation that the external Ti oxide layer may be responsible for the loss of superelasticity in the small pillars.
