nanocantilever

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A strip of silicon carbide, a few hundred nanometres in width, whose vibrational frequency varies in proportion to the mass of objects resting on it; it can detect masses as small as one attogram

Word forms

nanocantilever nanocantilevers

Etymology

From nano- + cantilever.

Related words

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