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angstrom, Å
unit of length commonly used in semiconductor nomenclature, 1Å = 10
-8
cm = 10
-4
micrometer = 0.1 nm; not a standard international unit; gradually replaced by nm in common usage: 1nm = 10Å
nanometer, nm
one billionth of a meter, 10
-9
m [nm]; terms such as nanoelectronics, nanomachining, nanotechnology, nanofabrication refer to this size scale.
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