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Rare earths are vital for chip assembly and the new regulations pointedly state that government export licenses are now required for any rare earths used in semiconductor manufacturing or testing equipment, including sub-14-nanometer chips, or high-spec memory chips.
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Charlie Campbell, Time, 16 Oct. 2025
After the mirror is painstakingly removed from its mount, engineers check for particles and chemically strip away the old layer of aluminum before adding a shiny new layer just 80 nanometers thick, a thousand times thinner than a human hair.
—Kenna Hughes-Castleberry, Space.com, 6 Oct. 2025
The infrared panels are 660 nanometers which is powerful enough to potentially penetrate the skin and stimulate cell repair.
—Omaid Homayun, Forbes.com, 19 Sep. 2025
The patch was created by combining nanophotonics technology, which manipulates light at the nanometer scale (one-hundred-thousandth the thickness of a human hair) to read molecular properties, with microfluidics technology, which precisely controls sweat in channels thinner than a hair.
—Hannah Millington, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Sep. 2025
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Charlie Campbell, Time, 16 Oct. 2025
After the mirror is painstakingly removed from its mount, engineers check for particles and chemically strip away the old layer of aluminum before adding a shiny new layer just 80 nanometers thick, a thousand times thinner than a human hair.
—Kenna Hughes-Castleberry, Space.com, 6 Oct. 2025
The infrared panels are 660 nanometers which is powerful enough to potentially penetrate the skin and stimulate cell repair.
—Omaid Homayun, Forbes.com, 19 Sep. 2025
The patch was created by combining nanophotonics technology, which manipulates light at the nanometer scale (one-hundred-thousandth the thickness of a human hair) to read molecular properties, with microfluidics technology, which precisely controls sweat in channels thinner than a hair.
—Hannah Millington, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Sep. 2025
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“Nanometer.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/nanometer. Accessed 21 Oct. 2025.
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nanometer
noun
nano·me·ter
variants
or chiefly British nanometre
: one billionth of a meter
—abbreviation nm
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