active layer
Americannoun
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"If the semiconductor industry wants to succeed with 2D materials, the active layer and the insulating layer must be designed together from the very beginning," emphasizes Mahdi Pourfath.
From Science Daily • May 9, 2026
As the Arctic warms, the active layer is getting thicker, and Rawlins wanted to know how that thickening, combined with warming and an intensified water cycle, would affect the terrestrial Arctic environment.
From Science Daily • Mar. 5, 2024
Built in the early 1960s, Arecibo was initially designed to study the Earths ionosphere, the chemically active layer in the upper atmosphere that is ionized by solar radiation.
From Slate • Nov. 23, 2020
This sequence of steps is affected by the morphology of the active layer.
From Nature • Aug. 15, 2012
Because the frozen permafrost was just a half meter beneath the active layer of soil, all the water on the tundra stayed near the surface.
From "Two Degrees" by Alan Gratz
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