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Here, a tunneling electron microscope image shows a Josephson junction made with alpha-silicon insulator sandwiched between niobium titanium nitrite superconductors, achieving a critical dimension of 210 nanometers.
—Anna Herr, IEEE Spectrum, 15 May 2024
This enabled the company to manufacture an even higher pixel density on the panel using today’s chip-making processes, which can etch transistors down to the nanometer levels over a silicon wafer.
—Michael Kan, PCMAG, 15 May 2024
Scientists then used an electron microscope to image more than 5,000 slices of the tissue, each of which was only around 30 nanometers thick.
—Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 May 2024
During the most recent quarter, TSMC derived 65% of its semiconductor-wafer revenue, made at fabs in Taiwan and elsewhere, from products of three, five or seven nanometers.
—Russ Wiles, The Arizona Republic, 19 Apr. 2024
The company considers 7 nanometers or less as advanced technology.
—Russ Wiles, The Arizona Republic, 19 Apr. 2024
By comparison, a strand of human DNA is 2.5 nanometers in diameter and a human hair is approximately 80,000 - 100,000 nanometers wide, the Initiative states.
—USA TODAY, 23 Apr. 2024
To put that size in perspective, there are 10 million nanometers in a centimeter.
—Cara Lynn Shultz, Peoplemag, 18 Apr. 2024
New generations of production technology are often described in terms of nanometers, or billionths of a meter, a measure of key dimensions of microscopic circuitry.
—Don Clark, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2024
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First Known Use
1963, in the meaning defined above
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“Nanometer.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/nanometer. Accessed 28 May. 2024.
Kids Definition
nanometer
noun
nano·meter
ˈnan-ə-ˌmēt-ər
: one billionth of a meter
Medical Definition
nanometer
noun
nano·me·ter
variants
or chiefly British nanometre
: one billionth of a meter
—abbreviation nm
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