Millikelvin
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Millikelvin is a noun meaning One thousandth of a kelvin.
Meaning
One thousandth of a kelvin.
More Meanings
- Of or relating to the temperature range at which temperatures are expressed in millikelvins
Example Sentences
ILT's device cools samples to several millikelvins, cold enough to freeze helium.
The temperatures required for producing a crystalline solid out of such a "one-component plasma" (3) are in the millikelvin range.
These results imply that DNA molecules can be conducting down to millikelvin temperature and that phase coherence is maintained over several hundred nanometers.
This zero-bias maximum disappears as temperature is raised above several hundred millikelvin, in agreement with theory ( 8 ): Because V sd is equal to the separation between the Fermi levels of the two leads, finite V sd splits the Kondo resonance into two peaks.
Word Forms
- millikelvins
Synonyms for millikelvin
Depending on context, synonyms include mK.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include microkelvin, micromilliliter, millidegree, millimicrosecond, millikayser, millesimal.
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