How to Use milliwatt in a Sentence
milliwatt
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That requires a second set of more powerful semiconductor amplifiers that produce tens of milliwatts of heat and so need to be housed at the 4 kelvin stage, where there is still significant cooling power.
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IEEE Spectrum,
8 Dec. 2025
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The design achieved power densities of 639 milliwatts/cm², which is the amount of electrical power generated per square centimeter of fuel cell area.
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Tejasri Gururaj,
Interesting Engineering,
25 Sep. 2025
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James Provost In practical terms, this shouldn’t create any noticeable interference, given that this transmitter puts out milliwatts at most and floats miles away from the nearest receiver.
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IEEE Spectrum,
31 Jan. 2026
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Experiments conducted by the team showed that a one-inch-diameter prototype could directly power a 10-milliwatt (mW) fan outdoors under sunlight.
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Georgina Jedikovska,
Interesting Engineering,
4 Sep. 2025
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Stretchable solar cells exist and are already reaching efficiencies of more than 12 percent, generating about 10 milliwatts per square centimeter outdoors.
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IEEE Spectrum,
27 May 2021
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Together, these enable the robot to estimate obstacle locations in 3D and navigate safely using milliwatt-level sensing power.
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Nitin Sanket,
The Conversation,
27 Mar. 2026
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The imager consumes 32 milliwatts to register 100,000 events per second and ramps up to just 73 milliwatts at 300 million events per second.
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IEEE Spectrum,
20 Feb. 2020
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While highly effective, these approaches require significant computing power, memory, and energy, resources that may be difficult to scale down to small flying robots, in which every gram of weight and every milliwatt of power matters.
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New Atlas,
8 June 2026
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