[ noun ] a metric unit of length equal to one millionth of a meter <noun.quantity>
Micromillimeter \Mi`cro*mil"li*me`ter\, n. [Micro- + millimeter.] The millionth part of a meter.
Note: The millionth part of a meter is now termed a {micron}, and the word micromillimeter does not conform to the IS use of the prefix {micro-}. [1913 Webster +PJC]
micron \mic"ron\, n. [NL., fr. Gr. mikro`s small.] (Physics) A measure of length; the thousandth part of one millimeter; the millionth part of a meter.
Bein said he and Enzel used synthetic zeolite crystals, each about 1 micron in diameter _ in their research, which was presented during an April meeting of the American Chemical Society in Dallas.
Development of the one-half micron device keeps Sematech on schedule in its plan to achieve manufacturing parity with Japan, Mills said.
The lab also found that Vectron captures more particles as small as 0.5 micron than the competitor models and it emits far fewer in the 1.3 to 6.0 micron range.
The lab also found that Vectron captures more particles as small as 0.5 micron than the competitor models and it emits far fewer in the 1.3 to 6.0 micron range.
(One micron is approximately 1/100th of the thickness of a human hair). The New Mexico factory, which is Intel's largest wafer fabrication plant, produces microprocessors, the brains of personal computers, and other advanced logic chips.
Engineers are now developing such machines, which fire computer-guided beams of electrons or protons to burn circuit patterns of under 0.1 micron directly into a silicon wafer.