Now the size of transistors is measured in billionths of a metre.

而现在的晶体管尺寸可用十亿分之一米（纳米）计算。

Shockingly, the neutrinos appeared to beat light speed by 60 billionths of a second.

令人震惊的是，中微子出现了以1秒钟里的10亿分之60击败了光速的试验结果。

Carbon nanotubes, which are just billionths of a metre across, seemed the perfect needle.

纳米碳管的直径仅有一米的十亿分之一长，是最理想的金属针。

The two substances themselves are arranged in tiny spheres less than 50 billionths of a metre across.

这两种物质分别排列在直径小于50纳米的球体中。

Most of the new elements that get created like this last billionths of a second before they disintegrate.

大多数被创造出来的新元素在衰变以前只能存在十亿分之一秒。

But the design requires that this silicon layer be no more than five nanometres (billionths of a metre) deep.

但此设计要求硅片厚度不超过5纳米(一米的十亿分之一)。

Travelling through 700km of rock, the particles seemed to show up billionths of a second earlier than they should have.

这些粒子在岩石中运行700千米时，达到终点比原来预料的要早十亿分之一秒。

In this state, each atom's quantum wave-function-its effective size-extends several billionths of a metre from its nucleus.

在这种状态下，每一个原子的量子微波函数- - -即它的有效作尺寸- - -将以原子核为中心延展到十亿分之几米(即纳米)的范围。

The second advance is a way of switching thousands of volts on and off in a few billionths of a second, a previously impossible feat.

第二个是可在数亿分之一秒的时间里实现数千伏电压的通断，这是一项前所未有的成就。

Researchers assembled flat ribbons of nanoparticles - tiny bits of matter only billionths of a meter long - in a darkened laboratory.

研究人员在漆黑的实验室里聚集了细小到只有一米的十亿分之一个的纳米物质的扁平带子 。

In a photonic crystal the elements are about the same size as the wavelength of light-a few hundred nanometres (billionths of a metre).

在光子晶体中，其成分与光的波长是同样的大小——几百纳米(一米的十亿分之一)。

When the crystal size is about three nanometers (billionths of a meter), the material has its ultra-strong and ductile characteristics.

当晶体大小大约为3纳米（1纳米等于10亿分之一米）时，天然丝材料具有超强的强度与延展性特征。

Quantum dots are tiny crystals of semiconducting material just a few tens of atoms, or a few nanometres (billionths of a metre), across.

量子点是一些微型晶体，材质为几十个原子宽，或几纳米(一米的十亿分之一)宽的半导体材料。

Each of these seven layers is of a different, precisely defined thickness, ranging from 13 to 688 nanometres (or billionths of a metre).

这七层，每层都是不一样的，准确地说，厚度是不同的，厚度从13到688纳米不等(一纳米为一米的十亿分之一)。

Szilard calculated that at room temperature one bit of information must take at least three thousand-billion-billionths of a joule of work to store.

西拉德计算出，室温下存储一个比特的信息至少需要消耗三十万兆分之一焦耳的功。

Instead of digging holes in the electrodes, they are coating them with a forest of carbon nanotubes, each five nanometres (billionths of a metre) wide.

与在电极上凿孔不同的是，他们在电极上覆盖一层碳纳米管，每个只有5纳米(十亿分之一米)宽。

The metal particles, which were five nanometres (billionths of a metre) across, were themselves coated with a photosensitive compound called azobenzene.

而其中直径为5毫微米(毫微米：一米的十亿分之一)的金属颗粒表面会自动包裹上一层偶氮苯光感涂层。

The current state of the art for chip manufacturing is 30 nanometers, which means the average size of a chip component is just 30 billionths of a meter across.

目前最先进的芯片制造工艺为30纳米，这意味着芯片元件的平均尺寸为300亿分之一米。

When the Duke scientists say "ultra-cool" they mean uber-cooled to around 150 micro-Kelvin — that's only a few billionths of a degree Kelvin above absolute zero.

杜克的科学家们所说的“超冷”意指超级冷却到150微开尔文左右——这仅仅比绝对零度高几亿分之一开尔文。

Electrons flowing through the chip would "see" a magnetic field that flips from one direction to the opposite every few hundred nanometres (billionths of a metre).

穿过芯片的电子可以“识别”某一磁场，该磁场每隔几百纳米(十亿分之一米)就变换一次方向。

With MRFM, the sample to be examined is attached to the end of a tiny silicon cantilever (about 100 millionths of a meter long and 100 billionths of a meter wide).

磁共振力显微技术的原理是，将被测样本附着在一个很小很小的硅悬臂上（约为1亿分之一米长和1000亿分之一米宽）。

The way researchers will construct these materials is now becoming clear.They will engineer them at the nanoscale, where things are measured in billionths of a metre.

研究者制造这些新物质的方法已日渐明朗，他们将在以十亿分之一米计量的纳米级别上进行创造。

The way researchers will construct these materials is now becoming clear. They will engineer them at the nanoscale, where things are measured in billionths of a metre.

研究者制造这些新物质的方法已日渐明朗，他们将在以十亿分之一米计量的纳米级别上进行创造。

In the course of doing the experiments, the researchers noticed that the particles showed up a few billionths of a second sooner than light would over the same distance.

在实验的过程中，研究人员发现这些粒子的用时比光要少了几十亿分之一秒。

It's a complex 192-beam system that last year generated a pulse with a megajoule of energy in a few billionths of a second, making it the most powerful laser ever built.

这是一个复杂的系统，可以同时发出192束激光，去年，在十亿分之几秒的时间内，产生了能量达到100万焦耳的激光脉冲，使之成为有史以来能量最强的激光器。

[font=Times New Roman][color=#000000]The second advance is a way of switching thousands of volts on and off in a few billionths of a second, a previously impossible feat.

[color=#000000]第二个是可在数亿分之一秒的时间里实现数千伏电压的通断，这是一项前所未有的成就。

This is a cylinder composed solely of carbon atoms, and one of its properties is good electrical conductivity. In effect, nanotubes act as wires a few billionths of a metre in diameter.

这是一种仅由碳原子组成的圆柱体，其中一个特性就是具有很好的导电性。