atomic layer

collocation in English

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atomic
adjective[usually before noun]
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/əˈtɒm.ɪk/us
/əˈtɑː.mɪk/
relating ...
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layer
noun[C]
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/ˈleɪ.ər/us
/ˈleɪ.ɚ/
a level of material, such as a type of rock or gas, that is different from the material above or below it, or a thin sheet of ...
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This is in a good agreement with the experiments, as the threshold fluency was introduced as the fluency needed to remove a singleatomiclayer.
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A thin top-gate dielectric is then deposited on top of the nanotube, either via evaporation oratomiclayerdeposition.
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Atomiclayergraphene possesses wavelength-insensitive ultrafast saturable absorption, which can be exploited as a full-band mode locker.
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Furthermore,atomiclayergraphene possesses wavelength-insensitive ultrafast saturable absorption, which can be exploited as a full-band mode locker.
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Conformal films may be deposited by thin-film deposition methods, such as plating, chemical vapor deposition oratomiclayerdeposition.
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Each full period corresponds to formation of a singleatomiclayerthin film.
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Film thicknesses from a singleatomiclayerto many micrometers can be achieved.
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Cho; molecular beam epitaxy allows semiconductor chips and laser matrices to be manufactured oneatomiclayerat a time.
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Metal-modulated epitaxy allows controlledatomiclayer-by-layer growth of thin films with almost ideal characteristics enabled by strain relaxation at the firstatomiclayer.
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Plasma removes surface layers with the lowest molecular weight, at the same time it oxidises the uppermostatomiclayerof the polymer.
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The size of a select sphere would be measured using optical interferometry to an uncertainty of about 0.3 nm on the radiusroughly a singleatomiclayer.
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This is in contrast to the usual surfacetension problems of different materials in contact, where the transition region will be only a few atomic layers in thickness.
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Passive films are usually just a few atomic layers thick.
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Since the mean free path of low energy electrons in a crystal is only a few angstroms, only the first few atomic layers contribute to the diffraction.
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Using a coreshell configuration, the melting point depression of nanoparticles is dominated by the outermost two atomic layers yet atoms in the core interior remain their bulk nature.
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For example, depending on surface porosity, 530 atomic layers of titanium carbide are hydrolyzed, forming methane within 5 minutes at ambient conditions, following by saturation of the reaction.
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