homoepitaxy
crystallography
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crystal growth
- In crystal: Growth from the melt
In homoepitaxy a crystal is grown on a substrate of the same material. Silicon layers of different impurity content, for example, are grown on silicon substrates in the manufacture of computer chips. Heteroepitaxy, on the other hand, is the growth of one crystal on the substrate…
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epitaxy
- In epitaxy
In homoepitaxy the growth layers are made up of the same material as the substrate, while in heteroepitaxy the growth layers are of a material different from the substrate. The commercial importance of epitaxy comes mostly from its use in the growth of semiconductor materials for…
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