Crystalline thin film grows on amorphous base
AUG 01, 1979
DOI: 10.1063/1.2995665
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.
© 1979. American Institute of Physics
