Its product, which consists of sheets of glass with a metal-oxide coating, was first used in skylights in 2003.

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We're talking "metal-oxide film resistors" and "non-polarized electrolysis electric audio capacitors, " here.

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Ali Nazari and his colleagues at Islamic Azad University in Saveh have published several papers on how to do that with different types of metal-oxide nanoparticles.

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The electrolyte is designed to be charged in such a way that it can help the viruses--shod in their metal-oxide coats and negatively charged--line up just so.

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Lin, Justin, and Marie examined the semi-conductor industry, where the initial reliance on vacuum tubes was replaced by bipolar technology, which in turn was replaced by complementary metal-oxide semiconductors (CMOS).

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Donald Fitzmaurice, a professor of nanomaterials at University College Dublin, and the founder of Nanomat, believes that thin films made of metal-oxide nanoparticles could have a promising future in solar cells and batteries.

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Apart from the arrival of less pricey full-frame digital SLRs, the other recent development that has impressed your correspondent is the way imaging chips are migrating from CCD (charge-coupled device) technology to CMOS (complementary metal-oxide semiconductor), used widely in the computer industry.

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The watch contains a 25, 000-pixel complementary metal oxide semiconductor sensor and 1 megabyte of memory, which can store up to 80 images at a time.

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Traditional cameras use either charge-coupled devices (CCDs) or complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) chips, which capture images on a grid of millions of pixels.

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