How to Use millivolt in a Sentence
millivolt
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For Imec’s devices, the subthreshold swing is 110 millivolts per decade.
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Richard Stevenson,
IEEE Spectrum,
26 Jan. 2016
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This places a fundamental limit of 60 millivolts for each ten-fold increase in the drain current (60 mV/decade).
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IEEE Spectrum,
21 Dec. 2020
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The resulting radio-frequency oscillations, of up to tens of millivolts, can be detected by measuring the voltage across the junction.
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IEEE Spectrum,
26 July 2017
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This change results in a reaction that requires 400 millivolts less voltage than standard water splitting and creates a valuable co-product called formate.
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Aman Tripathi,
Interesting Engineering,
4 Jan. 2026
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In simulations, buried ruthenium power rails led to 31 percent faster reads and 340-millivolt lower write voltages.
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IEEE Spectrum,
19 Dec. 2019
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The low millivolt-to-sub-volt operating levels of the Bristol team's pump further enhance its suitability for integration with compact batteries and wearable electronics.
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New Atlas,
12 June 2026
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This problem manifests itself in MOSFET design at the threshold of what is known as the 60 millivolts/decade limit, which represents the minimum amount of voltage required to increase the current flowing across a transistor by a factor of 10.
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IEEE Spectrum,
9 Feb. 2016
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