Sentence examples for thin layers of material from inspiring English sources

The best known patents cover soft lithography, Professor Whitesides's method of depositing extremely thin layers of material onto a surface in carefully controlled patterns.

In place of a field-effect transistor's channel, quantum-effect devices have an "island", insulated from both the source and drain by thin layers of material.

Relishing the flavour Picking winners Instant messaging joins the firm Solar cells go organic ReprintsOther methods of depositing thin layers of material on objects may be more familiar, but most have limits to their usefulness.

Generally speaking, only gamma radiation and neutron radiation are important in shield design since beta radiation (high-energy electrons) and alpha radiation (helium nuclei) are easily attenuated by fairly thin layers of material.

In this paper, it is shown that combining AFM, chemical etching and controlled polishing, progressively removing thin layers of material, allows a three-dimensional reconstruction of the volume distribution of dislocations about and under nanoindentation imprints.

In any case, hindered by its poor conductivity and with the only exception of very thin layers of material [15], the specific capacitance of MnO2 is far from the theoretical 1,250 F g−1, calculated for a redox process involving one electron per manganese atom in a potential window of 0.9 V, and instead it rarely exceeds 400 F g−1 [17, 18, 19, 19, 20].

The results suggest that ideal crystalline nanoclusters can be grown on surfaces simply controlling the surrounding environment even by deposition of thin layers of materials as the bulk surface.

Additive manufacturing (AM) is an advanced technology where products are manufactured by building up thin layers of materials from digitized three-dimensional (3D) designs virtually constructed using advanced computer-aided design software.

The deep-sea drag dredge would be designed to skim only a thin layer of material from the seafloor until its bucket is filled with nodules.

A thin layer of material from the original impact and ensuing firestorms -- a chemical fingerprint of sorts -- has been discovered in 65-million-year-old rocks around the world.

The method uses a thin layer of material (the measurement medium) glued on the conveyor belt.