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thin film

noun

a film of material only a few microns thick, deposited on a substrate, as in the technology for making integrated circuits.

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Nearby words

  1. thimphu,
  2. thin,
  3. thin as a rail,
  4. thin client,
  5. thin edge of the wedge,
  6. thin on top,
  7. thin register,
  8. thin section,
  9. thin-film,
  10. thin-layer chromatography

Origin of thin film

First recorded in 1955–60
Related formsthin-film, adjective
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British Dictionary definitions for thin-film

thin-film

adjective

(of an electronic component, device, or circuit) composed of one or more extremely thin layers of metal, semiconductor, etc, deposited on a ceramic or glass substratethin-film capacitor
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