nanotrench

English

Etymology

nano- +‎ trench

Noun

nanotrench (plural nanotrenches)

1. A nanoscale trench
   • 2016, Feng Xiong, Sanchit Deshmukh, Sungduk Hong, Yuan Dai, Ashkan Behnam, Feifei Lian, Eric Pop, “SANTA: Self-Aligned Nanotrench Ablation via Joule Heating for Probing Sub-20 nm Devices”, in arXiv‎^[1]:

     Here we describe a lithography-free, self-aligned nanotrench ablation (SANTA) technique to create nanoscale trenches in a polymer like poly(methyl) methacrylate (PMMA).