Epitaxy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This article needs additional citations for verification . Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources . Unsourced material may be challenged and removed . (February 2012) "Epitaxis" redirects here. For the main action of a classical drama , see Epitasis . For the phenomenon involving the modification of one gene's effects by one or more other genes, see Epistasis . Epitaxy refers to the deposition of a crystalline overlayer on a crystalline substrate, where the overlayer is in registry with the substrate. In other words, there must be one or more preferred orientations of the overlayer with respect to the substrate for this to be termed epitaxial growth. The overlayer is called an epitaxial film or epitaxial layer. The term epitaxy comes from the Greek roots epi , meaning "above", and taxis , meaning "in ordered manner". It can be translated "to arrange upon". For most technological appli...