epifilm

English

Etymology

epi- +‎ film

Noun

epifilm (plural epifilms)

1. An epitaxial film
   • 2016, B. Li, W. G. Chen, X. Guo, W. K. Ho, X. Q. Dai, J. F. Jia, M. H. Xie, “Strain in Epitaxial High-Index Bi2Se3(221) Films Grown by Molecular-Beam Epitaxy”, in arXiv‎^[1]:

     The slow strain-relaxation process of in epitaxial Bi2Se3(221) can be attributed to the layered structure of Bi2Se3 crystal, where the epifilm grown along [221] is like a pile of weakly-coupled quintuple layer slabs stacked side-by-side on substrate.