10 nanometres
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Comparison of sizes of semiconductor manufacturing process nodes with some microscopic objects and visible light wavelengths. At this scale, the width of a human hair is about 10 times that of the image.[1]
To help compare different orders of magnitude this page lists lengths between 10−8 and 10−7 metres (10 nanometres and 100 nanometres).
Distances shorter than 10 nanometres
- 10 nm = 10 nanometres = 10−8 metres
- 10 nm – lower size of tobacco smoke[2]
- 10 nm – shortest Extreme Ultraviolet wavelength or longest X-ray wavelength[3]
- 11 nm – the average half-pitch of a memory cell speculated to be manufactured in 2015.
- 16 nm – technology was reached by semiconductor companies in 2014
- 18 nm – diameter of tobacco mosaic virus[4] (Generally, viruses range in size from 20 nm to 450 nm.)[citation needed]
- 20 nm – width of bacterial flagellum[5]
- 20 nm to 80 nm — thickness of cell wall in Gram-positive bacteria[6]
- 22 nm – smallest feature size of production microprocessors in September 2009[7]
- 22 nm – the average half-pitch of a memory cell expected to be manufactured at around the 2011–2011 time frame.
- 30 nm — lower size of cooking oil smoke[2]
- 32 nm – the average half-pitch of a memory cell manufactured at around the 2009–2010 time frame.
- 45 nm – the average half-pitch of a memory cell manufactured at around the 2007–2008 time frame.
- 50 nm – upper size for airborne virus particles[2]
- 50 nm – flying height of the head of a hard disk[8]
- 65 nm – the average half-pitch of a memory cell manufactured at around the 2005–2006 time frame.
- 90 nm – the average half-pitch of a memory cell manufactured at around the 2002–2003 time frame.
- 100 nm – larger than 90% of the particles of wood smoke[citation needed] (ranges from 7 to 3000 nanometres)[2]
Distances longer than 100 nanometres
Notes
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- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Annis, Patty J. October 1991. Kansas State University. Fine Particle POLLUTION. Figure 1. (tobacco smoke: 10 to 1000 nm; virus particles: 3 to 50 nm; bacteria: 30 to 30000 nm; cooking oil smoke: 30 to 30000 nm; wood smoke: 7 to 3000 nm)
- ↑ Introduction to the Electromagnetic Spectrum and Spectroscopy
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- ↑ Microbiology Text.com
- ↑ http://www.physorg.com/news172852816.html accessed 2009.09.21
- ↑ help with PCs web site
