misimplant

present singular third person misimplants · participle present misimplanting · participle past misimplanted · past misimplanted

1. To implant incorrectly.

   The wafers may become misimplanted when the implant species comes in […]

   2012, Robert Zorich, Handbook of Quality Integrated Circuit Manufacturing, page 372

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   Moreover, it was an accidental finding resulting from a misimplanted electrode in an experiment originally designed to study the RAS.

   1967, Melvin Herman Marx, Tom M. Tombaugh, Tom N. Tombaugh, Motivation: Psychological Principles and Educational Implications, page 137

   Internet chatter ebbed and flowed with a predictable, prescriptive voyeurism: some readers anguished over the woman's choice to terminate the pregnancy, while others puzzled over the lack of indignation (and indeed the sympathy) evinced by the couple whose egg had been misimplanted;

   2009, Eugenia Tsao, “Nature/Culture Dichotomies in Bioethics Debates”, in Science As Culture, volume 18, number 4

   And the lasting consequences of an embryo mix-up reach further than any "psychological trauma” associated with “the possibility that the child that [an IVF couple] wanted so desperately” could, because their embryos were misimplanted into another patient, “be born to someone else and that they might never know his or her fate."

   2019, Dov Fox, Birth Rights and Wrongs, page 68

plural misimplants

1. An instance of misimplanting; misimplantation.

   This group had 3 of the 42 wafers excluded from the data base due to misimplants and/or difficulties in probing the resulting layers.

   1988, LA Larson, “An Industry‐Wide Evaluation of Ion Implant Dosing Accuracy”, in Journal of the Electrochemical Society, volume 135, number 7

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   Using the procedure of inspection of one wafer from each cassette plus all wafers suspected by the operator of possible misimplant, an essentially total elimination of implant-related zero-yield wafers was achieved on a CMOS fab line providing high-performance VLSI devices

   1987, WL Smith, A Rosencwaig, DL Willenborg, J Opsal, MW Taylor, “Ion implant monitoring with thermal wave technology”, in Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics; Research Section B: Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms, volume 21