10 nanometres

Comparison of sizes of semiconductor manufacturing process nodes with some microscopic objects and visible light wavelengths. At this scale, the width of a human hair is about 10 times that of the image.^[1]

To help compare different orders of magnitude this page lists lengths between 10⁻⁸ and 10⁻⁷ metres (10 nanometres and 100 nanometres).

Distances shorter than 10 nanometres

• 10 nm = 10 nanometres = 10⁻⁸ metres
• 10 nm — lower size of tobacco smoke^[2]
• 10 nm Shortest Extreme Ultraviolet wavelength or longest X-ray wavelength^[3]
• 11 nm — the average half-pitch of a memory cell speculated to be manufactured in 2015.
• 16 nm — technology was reached by semiconductor companies in 2014
• 18 nm — diameter of tobacco mosaic virus^[4] (Generally, viruses range in size from 20 nm to 450 nm.)
• 20 nm — width of bacterial flagellum^[5]
• 20 nm to 80 nm — thickness of cell wall in Gram-positive bacteria^[6]
• 22 nm — Smallest feature size of production microprocessors in September 2009^[7]
• 22 nm — the average half-pitch of a memory cell expected to be manufactured at around the 2011–2011 time frame.
• 30 nm — lower size of cooking oil smoke^[2]
• 32 nm — the average half-pitch of a memory cell manufactured at around the 2009–2010 time frame.
• 45 nm — the average half-pitch of a memory cell manufactured at around the 2007–2008 time frame.
• 50 nm — upper size for airborne virus particles^[2]
• 50 nm — flying height of the head of a hard disk^[8]
• 65 nm — the average half-pitch of a memory cell manufactured at around the 2005–2006 time frame.
• 90 nm — the average half-pitch of a memory cell manufactured at around the 2002–2003 time frame.
• 100 nm — larger than 90% of the particles of wood smoke (ranges from 7 to 3000 nanometres)^[2]

Distances longer than 100 nanometres

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