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epitaxy

American  
[ep-i-tak-see] / ˈɛp ɪˌtæk si /

noun

Crystallography.
epitaxies plural
  1. epitaxis.


epitaxy British  
/ ˌɛpɪˈtæksɪəl, ˈɛpɪˌtæksɪ /

noun

  1. the growth of a thin layer on the surface of a crystal so that the layer has the same structure as the underlying crystal

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"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

Indeed, epitaxy is part of many of the electronic devices that we use today, from cell phones to computers to solar panels, allowing electricity to flow, and not flow, through them.

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.

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