thin film

collocation in English

meaningsofthinandfilm

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thin
adjective
uk
/θɪn/us
/θɪn/
having a small distance between two ...
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film
noun
uk
/fɪlm/us
/fɪlm/
mainly UK
a series of moving pictures, usually shown in a cinema or on television and often telling ...
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(Definition ofthinandfilmfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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The finite element scheme described above has been implemented and applied to variousthinfilmsimulations.
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A glass substrate was kept parallel to and 14.5 mm away from thethinfilmto deposit atomic beams for the topographical analysis.
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The walls of the hole are relatively cold and large temperature gradients occur across thethinfilm.
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By using the code, we investigated the ionization dynamics of a carbonthinfilmirradiated by a short-pulse high-power laser.
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Let us now simulate the evolution of athinfilmsubjected to gravity and lying on the underside of a horizontal plane.
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There are two different initiating mechanisms that can excite the long-wave interfacial instability in athinfilm.
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Hopefully, our results shall contribute to the development of dynamic theories of droplet andthinfilmmotion with compact support.
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This electrode is a ringstylethinfilmof the metal attached onto the airfoil surface.
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On ice, athinfilmof fuel burns at the top and heat is radiated downward through the fuel layer, melting underlying ice.
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This condition is invalidated when 1 - c is very small, and the fluid lies in athinfilminside the cylindrical wall.
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We restrict attention to athinfilmbeing driven up a solid flat surface by a gradient in surface tension.
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In subsections 5.1-5.6 we consider athinfilmset-up in which the concentration c is a solution of equation (4.4) with = 100.
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A new simple model (18) to describe nonlinear interfacial dynamics inthinfilmflows is proposed.
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