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tetralayer

tetralayer noun: a structure composed of four layers.

Noun

tetralayer (plural tetralayers)

  1. A structure composed of four layers
    • A quantitative analysis of this behavior and of all our experimental observations is fully consistent with mono and bilayer MoTe#95;2 being direct band-gap semiconductors, with tetralayer MoTe#95;2 being an indirect gap semiconductor, and with trilayers having nearly identical direct and indirect...2015, Ignacio Gutiérrez-Lezama, Ashish Arora, Alberto Ubaldini, Céline Barreteau, Enrico Giannini, Marek Potemski, Alberto F. Morpurgo, “Indirect-to-direct band-gap crossover in few-layer MoTe₂”, in...

Forms of tetralayer

pluraltetralayers

Origin of tetralayer

From tetra- + layer.

Questions about tetralayer

What does tetralayer mean?
Tetralayer means a structure composed of four layers.
What part of speech is tetralayer?
Tetralayer is a noun.
What is the plural of tetralayer?
The plural of tetralayer is tetralayers.

Words near tetralayer in the dictionary

  1. tetrakisphosphate
  2. tetrakisphosphates
  3. tetrakosane
  4. tetrakosanes
  5. tetralateral
  6. tetralayer
  7. tetralayers
  8. tetralead
  9. tetralemma
  10. tetralemmas
  11. tetralemmata

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