Epitaxial

adj

adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Of, pertaining to, or employing epitaxy not-comparable

    "It should be noted that a high temperature anneal in Ar, H₂, or high vacuum is a well established pre-epitaxial growth step by which a native oxide film is removed to obtain a good quality epitaxial layer[…]."

Example

More examples

"Epitaxial crystals are astonishing, aren't they?"

Etymology

From epitaxy + -al.

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