When a thin film is epitaxially grown on a crystalline substrate, the crystal lattice pattern of the substrate surface acts as a kind of atomic template for the crystal growth of the overlayer film. Until recently it has not been possible to deposit oriented single‐crystal layers on amorphous substrates, where no such regular atomic template is present.
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© 1979 American Institute of Physics.
1979
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