epitaxy
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"Rather than ion implantation, molecular beam epitaxy was used to precisely incorporate gallium atoms into the germanium's crystal lattice," says Julian Steele, a physicist at the University of Queensland and a co-author of the study.
From Science Daily • Oct. 30, 2025
"Using epitaxy -- growing thin crystal layers -- means we can finally achieve the structural precision needed to understand and control how superconductivity emerges in these materials."
From Science Daily • Oct. 30, 2025
To date, epitaxy research has focused on growing one layer of material onto another, and the two materials have the same crystal orientation at the interface.
From Science Daily • Jan. 24, 2024
IQE, established in the 1980s, produces a type of epitaxy wafer in Newport which is a vital component of compound semiconductors.
From BBC • May 26, 2022
Another researcher, Alfred Cho, uses a process called molecular-beam epitaxy to tailor-make new semiconducting and optical materials by spraying wafers with thin layers of atoms or molecules.
From Time Magazine Archive
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