Tricrystal

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A semiconductor (or similar device) incorporating a junction of three crystals.

    "By comparison to averaged results from many discrete dislocation dynamics (DDD) simulations of an aluminum type tricrystal under tensile loading, the new hardening parameter in the continuum model is calibrated."

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"By comparison to averaged results from many discrete dislocation dynamics (DDD) simulations of an aluminum type tricrystal under tensile loading, the new hardening parameter in the continuum model is calibrated."

Etymology

From tri- + crystal.

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