It is a film of material deposited on a substrate. It has the thickness of few microns and used in the technology for making integrated circuits.
A layer of semiconductor material, such as copper indium diselenide, cadmium telluride, gallium arsenide, or amorphous silicon, a few microns or less in thickness, used to make photovoltaic cells. Commonly called amorphous.
A type of coating allowing very thin layers of magnetic material used on hard disks and read/write heads. Hard disks with thin film surfaces can store greater amounts of data.
Electronics. Any of several thin layers (generally less than 1 m each) of insulating, conducting, or semiconductor material that are deposited successively on a supporting substrate in precise patterns to collectively form all or part of an integrated circuit; the deposition can be performed by mechanical, chemical, or high-vacuum evaporation methods.
a technology using vacuum deposition of conductors and dielectric materials onto a substrate (frequently silicon) to form an electrical circuit.
A type of coating deposited on a flat surface through a photolithographic process. Thin film is used on disk platters and read/write heads, as well as on the write element of MR heads.
A thin film (usually less than 5 mm thickness) is one that is deposited onto a substrate by an accretion process such as vacuum evaporation, sputtering, chemical vapour deposition, or pyrolytic decomposition.
PV – A solar-electric technology utilizing very thin layers of semiconductor materials, usually one to 10 microns. This type of device uses far less material than a conventional silicon photovoltaic (PV) panel.
A film of material, ranging in thickness from a few hundred to a few thousand Angstroms, which is deposited by evaporation onto a substrate.
A microscopically thin layer of semiconductor or magnetic material that is deposited onto a metal, ceramic, or semiconductor base
A film one molecule thick; often referred to as a monolayer.
A thin layer of material grown or deposited on a substrate.Typically, layer thickness is measured in tens to thousands of angstroms for insulators and microns for metals.
A solar PV module constructed with sequential layers of thin film semiconductor materials usually only micrometers thick. Currently, thin-film technologies account for around 12 percent of all solar modules sold worldwide. This share is expected to increase, since thin-film technologies represent a potential route to lower costs. Commonly called amorphous.
Thin films are material layers of about 1 µm thickness. Electronic semiconductor devices and optical coatings are the main applications benefiting from thin film construction. Some work is being done with ferromagnetic thin films as well for use as computer memory.