EGAVE

overlayer

About 0.08 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun A layer of adatoms adsorbed onto a surface, as onto the surface of a single crystal.

Similar words

sheathing overlay adatom epitaxial layer metalayer superlattice overshift sublattice supracrystal underplating

Often followed by

of is and on thickness structure with was structures

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