Sentence examples for tiny defect from inspiring English sources

A sodium water reaction takes place when high-pressured water vapor leaks into sodium through a tiny defect on the surface of the heat transfer tube in a steam generator of the sodium-cooled fast reactor.

OCT imaged a focal attachment of the hyaloid to the center of the fovea with intact inner foveolar cyst and a tiny defect involving the outer retinal layer.

These tiny defects in the punch card ballot system have focused national attention on the design of voting technology.

This is a fractious, finicky process and tiny defects in the materials, or failures in the alignment of the different layers, can result in 20% or more of a batch being scrapped.

The formation of tiny spores by fungi and the smaller reproductive forms of the parasites provide vehicles by which infection may be drawn into the lungs or may pass through tiny defects in the skin or mucosal linings of the various openings and tracts of the body.

The results indicate that the film surfaces are quite uniform, containing only tiny defects within a scan area of 20 μm × 20 μm.

The approach relies on the fact that when natural ionizing radiation in the ground passes through crystalline objects, tiny defects can trap electrons, which then accumulate over time.

But on every chip, there are tiny defects that occur naturally at the atomic level that inhibit the process of producing light.

In previous works of an ALD interlayer inserted into HiPIMS-CrN coatings, the ALD interlayer was mostly deposited at the interface of the CrN due to the dense structure with a few tiny defects [12].

Extreme tiny and nonvisual residues could happen during gate etch processes by the step height between active area (AA) and shallow trench isolation (STI), and the tiny defects are difficult to be located even some of those did lead to chip probe (CP) test failure.

An improved technique has emerged, serendipitously, from a problem inherent to semiconductor manufacture: When scientists deposit layers of a germanium semiconductor on a substrate of silicon, the strain exerted by the mismatch between the two crystal types can create tiny defects that degrade performance.