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Looking ahead, the Duke team plans to shrink contact lengths even further down to 15 nanometers and explore alternative contact metals that could reduce resistance in ways compatible with real chip architectures.—Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 1 Mar. 2026 The researchers used focused ion beams to mill the QR code onto the ceramic film, with individual pixels measuring just 49 nanometers each.—Abhimanyu Ghoshal, New Atlas, 20 Feb. 2026 But now so strong is the demand, Cook said, that Apple is constrained in its ability to get enough of the advanced 3-nanometer chips that power the phones.—Alexei Oreskovic, Fortune, 30 Jan. 2026 While ice looks to the naked eye like water in solid form, a nanometer-thin layer of liquid water can coat its surface.—Miriam Fauzia, Dallas Morning News, 26 Jan. 2026 See All Example Sentences for nanometer