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submicron

submicron

1 7.5
A particle smaller than one millionth of a meter
  • noun
  • /sʌbˈmaɪkrɒn/
  • Specialized
: submicrón
  • The researchers developed a new filter designed to capture submicron particles from the air.
  • submicron-scale

Examples

  • 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.

    Academic text (2005)
  • Efficient on submicron, health-damaging fine particulates, these filters were certified to exceed NIOSH and OSHA codes for recirculation of plant air.

    Academic text (2002)
  • And the, the beauty of this process is that it allows submicron features to be transferred to the wafer.

  • The name nanoDASD is used here to emphasize the potential for submicron-bit-size performance.

    Academic text (1995)
  • This technique is rather time-consuming and leads to very long ASIC design times, especially for large, flat submicron designs.

    Academic text (1996)
  • Wire delay for deep-submicron designs can be the predominant part of total path delay.

    Academic text (1996)
  • The researchers achieved submicron resolution from those crystals, but with low efficiency, using the hard X-rays needed to penetrate the thick specimens.

    Academic text (2012)
  • In addition, stamping techniques were demonstrated recently to transfer submicron-sized structures using solutions of alkanethiolates and related compounds.

    Academic text (1995)
  • Exhaust steam passes through a high-efficiency submicron-particulate air filter and an activated carbon filter that removes volatile organic compounds.

    Academic text (1995)
  • 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)

Antonyms

macroscopic
  • Specialized
4 5.6

You can see without a microscope

How Small

atom
36 2.8
nanoparticle
  • Specialized
9 6.5
submicron
  • Specialized
1 7.5

Surface Forms

submicron singular
submicrons plural

Morphology

submicron = micron (transparent) = sub + micron

The meaning is directly compositional: 'sub-' means below or smaller than, and 'micron' names the unit of measurement.

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'.