Stick the part in acid, run an electric current through it and we can increase the thickness of the layer by a factor of 20-40.
The balance spring is etched out of a thin silicon wafer using a photolithographic technique, similar to that used for microelectronic chips, so its exact shape and thickness can be more carefully controlled than with metal.
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In a large heart attack, the area of cell death can cover the entire thickness of the chamber's wall.
In-cell touch can help reduce the thickness of the display, which could make the iPhone 5 thinner than previous models, or clear out space to add other features like a larger battery that can help extend operating time.
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The real advantage is that the lack of resistance means that a given thickness of superconducting cable can carry between two and ten times as much power as the same thickness of copper.
Depending on its origin, a graft can differ in size, thickness and how fast it generates tissue.
"Those of us who grew up before Margaret Thatcher was even in Downing Street can sometimes fail to appreciate the thickness of the glass ceiling she broke through - from a grocer's shop in Grantham to the highest office in the land, " he said.
By controlling the inner and outer thickness of this metallic shell we can control the wavelength of light that this nanoparticle will absorb.
Since the spatial resolution of SPECT is roughly equivalent to the thickness of the heart chamber wall, it can only detect those infarcts that have traversed a good portion of the chamber wall.
Such big spending could give Apple a jump on a new display technology known as IGZO (indium, gallium, and zinc) that can achieve a resolution of 330 dots per inch while reducing the thickness and power consumption.
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Threaded on a wire one-fifth the thickness of a human hair, these tiny seeds of light can be injected to activate special networks of light-sensitive neurons.
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So by firing radio pulses through the overlying sheet and recording the return echoes, scientists can plot both the depth of the rock bed and - by definition - the thickness of the ice covering.
To power this beast, Xiaomi's throwing in a 2, 000mAh cell, but you can also purchase a 3, 000mAh version if you don't mind the extra 2mm thickness on the phone.
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