Diodes are built by laying down microscopically thin crystalline layers of semiconductor materials.

Clarke envisions a microscopically thin but strong "hyperfilament" that makes the elevator possible.

The clouds lay invisible to normal vision, spread microscopically thin along the pavement or compressed into cracks in mosaic murals.

The interstitium is the microscopically thin, delicate lining between the lungs' air sacs (alveoli).

Advances in making microscopically thin films of the new materials, a form useful for electronic circuits, have been particularly rapid.

It is almost certain that traces of the chemical used to clean the equipment will remain on its surfaces, forming a microscopically thin layer.

Johnny's body is covered with a microscopically thin film of transparent plates that make him impervious to flame.

The lasers are made of microscopically thin layers of materials with different electrical properties.

In the case of ordinary incoherent light, the standing waves are distinct only within a microscopically thin volume of space next to the reflecting surface.

At that boundary, friction within a microscopically thin layer of fluid accounts for virtually all of the drag.