thin film
nounDefinition of thin film
: a very thin layer of a substance on a supporting material
especially
: a coating (as of a semiconductor) that is deposited in a layer one atom or one molecule thick
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The new Prius models will have solar panels built by Sharp, thin films that are around 0.001 inches thick. — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, "Toyota Is Testing a New Solar-Powered Prius," 8 July 2019 In 2017, as Weinstein Co. was in freefall, Sony was trying to wage a turnaround and fill out a thin film slate. — Ryan Faughnder, chicagotribune.com, "Quentin Tarantino’s ‘Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood’ is Sony’s big summer gamble. Will it pay off?," 26 July 2019 In 2017, as Weinstein Co. was in freefall, Sony was trying to wage a turnaround and fill out a thin film slate. — Los Angeles Times, "Quentin Tarantino’s ‘Once Upon a Time ... in Hollywood’ is Sony’s big summer gamble. Will it pay off?," 24 July 2019 Perfect Conductance The researchers put a thin film of the samarium hexaboride on top of another compound that, at low temperatures, becomes a superconductor—a material that can conduct electricity without resistance. — Rachel Crowell, Scientific American, "Quirky Quantum Tunneling Observed," 9 July 2019 Xiaoxing Xi, a Temple University physics professor, works with superconducting thin film in his lab. — Teresa Watanabestaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, "Is it police work or racial profiling? U.S. crackdown puts Chinese scholars on edge," 22 July 2019 Counting penguin bones Come morning the deck of the Palmer is coated in a thin film of ice from the storm that blew through the previous night. — Elizabeth Rush, National Geographic, "These women are changing the landscape of Antarctic research," 7 Mar. 2019 Thouless, Haldane and Kosterlitz pioneered the mathematical description of quantum materials in thin films and in one-dimensional objects (such as a chain of atoms) by borrowing concepts such as this one from topology. — Quanta Magazine, "Nobel Prize Awarded for Quantum Topology," 4 Oct. 2016 In a new paper in Physical Review Letters, mathematicians at New York University's Applied Math Lab have fine-tuned the recipe for the perfect bubble even further based on similar experiments with soapy thin films. — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, "There’s now an even more precise “recipe” for blowing the perfect bubble," 2 Sep. 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'thin film.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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