Etymograph

English

heteroepitaxy

From hetero- + epitaxy.

Formed from hetero- + epitaxy

Proto-Indo-European *sem- ‘one, whole’

Proto-Indo-European *sḿ̥teros

Proto-Hellenic *hə́teros

Ancient Greek ἕτερος ‘other, another, different’

English hetero-

Today it means

noun A form of epitaxy in which one kind of crystal is grown upon the surface of a different type. The process of depositing an epitaxial layer on a substrate of a different material

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