submicron
- noun
- /sʌbˈmaɪkrɒn/
- Specialized
- The researchers developed a new filter designed to capture submicron particles from the air.
- submicron-scale
Examples
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A microprocessor in the control unit sends out a square-wave current that forces calcium carbonate to come out of solution as soft, non-adhesive, submicron particles.
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Efficient on submicron, health-damaging fine particulates, these filters were certified to exceed NIOSH and OSHA codes for recirculation of plant air.
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And the, the beauty of this process is that it allows submicron features to be transferred to the wafer.
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The name nanoDASD is used here to emphasize the potential for submicron-bit-size performance.
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This technique is rather time-consuming and leads to very long ASIC design times, especially for large, flat submicron designs.
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Wire delay for deep-submicron designs can be the predominant part of total path delay.
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The researchers achieved submicron resolution from those crystals, but with low efficiency, using the hard X-rays needed to penetrate the thick specimens.
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In addition, stamping techniques were demonstrated recently to transfer submicron-sized structures using solutions of alkanethiolates and related compounds.
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Exhaust steam passes through a high-efficiency submicron-particulate air filter and an activated carbon filter that removes volatile organic compounds.
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While CMOS device scaling continues to advance well into deep-submicron levels, the performance of the interconnect technology has not scaled accordingly when global chip interconnections on larger and larger chip die sizes are considered.
Academic text (1999)
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Etymology
Submicron as a noun comes from sub- 'below' and micro 'small', so a submicron is 'a particle smaller than a micron', which is a very tiny size equal to 'one millionth of a meter'.