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  • noun Plural form of microdisk.

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  • These abilities will be tested in three events: a two-millimeter dash in which each nanobot seeks the best time for a goal-to-goal sprint across the playing field; a slalom drill where the path between goals is blocked by "defenders" (polymer posts) and a ball handling drill that requires robots to “dribble” as many “nanoballs” (microdisks with the diameter of a human hair) as possible into the goal within a 3-minute period.

    Nanosoccer debuts at RoboCup 2007 | Impact Lab 2007

  • They watched the radioactive coolant lazily convert another flotilla of microdisks into miniature shipwrecks on a poison sea.

    Analog Science Fiction and Fact 2004

  • The team led by Morthier created indium phosphide (InP) microdisks that are 7.5 micrometers in diameter.

    IEEE Spectrum 2010

  • The microdisks worked so well that they could be linked together to form a register analogous to transistor-based registers, whereby each laser flips the next one, explains Van Thourhout.

    IEEE Spectrum 2010

  • Light pulses are led to or read out from the laser via waveguides built into the surface of the microchip and coupled to the microdisks.

    IEEE Spectrum 2010

  • The microdisks are glued onto a silicon chip, using a polymer known as DVS-BCB.

    IEEE Spectrum 2010

  • My mother might have left it at the pharm, but bio microdisks are radiation sensitive, you know, and the whole pharm was hot. "

    Analog Science Fiction and Fact 2004

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