(solid-state physics) A technique of growing single crystals in which beams of atoms or molecules are made to strike a single-crystalline substrate in a vacuum, giving rise to crystals whose crystallographic orientation is related to that of the substrate. Abbreviated MBE.
molecular-beam epitaxy
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