epitaxial

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adjective

Of, pertaining to, or employing epitaxy.

UncommonScrabble 18

Meanings

adjectiveepitaxial (not comparable)
  1. not comparableOf, pertaining to, or employing epitaxy.

    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[…].

    1994, D. M. Lee, D. Ruprecht, D. Hymes, W. Huber, “Surface Characterization of Heat Treated Silicon Wafers”, in H[oward] R. Huff, W. Bergholz, K[ōji] Sumino, editors, Semiconductor Silicon/1994: Proceedings of the Seventh International Symposium on Silicon Materials Science and Technology (Electronics Division Proceedings; 94-10), The Electrochemical Society, →ISBN, page 241

Origin

  1. Englishepitaxy
  2. Proto-Indo-European*h₂el-
  3. Proto-Indo-European*h₂élisder.?
  4. Englishepitaxial

From epitaxy + -al.

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Translations

Italian epitassiale
  • epitassialeTranslations
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