epitaxy

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• GaAs technology had grown out of early efforts by Esaki and Raphael Tsu to make superlattices and the development of molecular-beam epitaxy.

  Academic text (1993)

• One ingenious, highly promising route to tightly confined quantum dots uses patterned substrates combined with multilayer epitaxy to grow very small quantum wires and dots.

  Academic text (1994)

• Analytic and vacuum techniques made possible the development of molecular-beam epitaxy, which may yet play a major technological role.

  Academic text (1993)

• Transmission electron microscope image of crystalline MgO layers between layers of iron, formed using molecular beam epitaxy by a team at Japan's National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology in Tsukuba.

  Academic text (2004)

• Modifications of the basic molecular-beam epitaxy and chemical vapor deposition techniques have spawned new techniques with names such as atomic-layer epitaxy, migration-enhanced epitaxy, and chemical-beam epitaxy.

  Academic text (1993)

• When a multiple heterostructure with two thin GaAs layers is prepared by epitaxial growth techniques such as molecular-beam epitaxy or metal-organic chemical vapor deposition, a double quantum well forms.

  Academic text (1994)

• Crystal Solar is trying a similar approach on etching silicon wafers to create pores, then doing epitaxy, depositing a ceramic slurry, and then exfoliating a thin layer; efficiencies are still low, though.

  Blog text (23)

• Molecular-beam epitaxy is a widely used method for producing high-quality crystalline layers in semiconductor manufacturing.

• Researchers developed a new epitaxy technique to improve the efficiency of photovoltaic cells.

• The process of epitaxy allows for precise control over the thickness and orientation of the crystal layers.

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