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nano- +‎ sieve

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nanosieve (plural nanosieves)

  1. A device that functions as a nanoscale sieve
    • 2016, Shengtao Mei, Muhammad. Qasim. Mehmood, Sajid Hussain, Kun Huang, Xiaohui Ling, Shawn.Yohanes.Siew, Hong Liu, Jinghua Teng, Aaron Danner, Cheng-Wei Qiu, “Flat Helical Nanosieves”, in arXiv[1]:
      Thanks to such spin-conversion nanosieve helical elements, it is no longer necessary to employ the conventional two-beam interferometric measurement to characterize optical vortices, while the interference can be realized natively without changing any parts of the current setup.