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Nanoscale Physical Phenomenon Discovered

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ANN ARBOR, Mich., May 24, 2010 — A nanoscale phenomenon has been discovered that could lead to faster, less expensive portable diagnostic devices and push back frontiers in building micromechanical and lab-on-a-chip devices. In our macroscale world, materials called conductors effectively transmit electricity, and materials called insulators or dielectrics don't, unless they are jolted with an extremely high voltage. Under such "dielectric breakdown" circumstances, as when a bolt of lightning hits a rooftop, the dielectric (the rooftop in this example) suffers irreversible damage. This isn't the case at the...Read full article

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    Published: May 2010
    Glossary
    lab-on-a-chip
    A lab-on-a-chip (LOC) is a miniaturized device that integrates various laboratory functions and capabilities onto a single, compact chip. Also known as microfluidic devices, lab-on-a-chip systems are designed to perform a variety of tasks traditionally carried out in conventional laboratories, but on a much smaller scale. These devices use microfabrication techniques to create channels, chambers, and other structures that facilitate the manipulation of fluids, samples, and reactions at the...
    nano
    An SI prefix meaning one billionth (10-9). Nano can also be used to indicate the study of atoms, molecules and other structures and particles on the nanometer scale. Nano-optics (also referred to as nanophotonics), for example, is the study of how light and light-matter interactions behave on the nanometer scale. See nanophotonics.
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