Nanometer
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A
nanometer
is a billionth of a meter.
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As you go farther down this scale here, that's a micron, or a micrometer, and we go all the way down to here to a
nanometer
and an angstrom.
The way you measure nanotechnology is in nanometers, and one
nanometer
is a billionth of a meter, and to put some scale to that, if you had a nanoparticle that was one
nanometer
thick, and you put it side by side, and you had 50,000 of them, you'd be the width of a human hair.
The most advanced transistors today are at 65 nanometers, and we've seen, and I've had the pleasure to invest in, companies that give me great confidence that we'll extend Moore's Law all the way down to roughly the 10
nanometer
scale.
A zeptowatt, if you put it in similar terms, is if you take just one grain of salt and then you imagine a tiny, tiny, little ball that is one thousandth of the mass of that one grain of salt and then you drop it one nanometer, which is a hundred times smaller than the wavelength of visible light, once per day.
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