1909 A. 82 246 This means, for the time, a power of 21 microwatts.
1914 R. Stanley xvii. 261 Duddell carried out experiments to find the minimum power required to produce audible signals in a telephone receiver at different frequencies, and found that, while 430 microwatts were required at 300 frequency, only 7·7 microwatts were required at 900 frequency.
1994 E. 49 3143 With a plane capillary, this may allow detection of infrared radiation at a microwatt level.