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A layer is the deposition
Deposition

Deposition or Depose may refer to:* Deposition , taking testimony outside of court* Deposition , molecules settling out of a solution* Thin-film deposition, any technique for depositing a thin film of material onto a substrate or onto previously deposited layers...
 of molecules on a substrate
Substrate

Substrate may mean:*Substrate , the material used in the bottom of an aquarium*Substrate , a molecule that is acted upon by an enzyme*Substrate , the material on which a process is conducted...
 or base (glass
Glass

Glass generally refers to a Hardness, brittle, transparency amorphous solid, such as that used for windows, many Glass Bottles, or eyewear, including, but not limited to, soda-lime glass, borosilicate glass, acrylic glass, sugar glass, Muscovite , or aluminium oxynitride....
, ceramic
Ceramic

File:Bridge from dental porcelain.jpgFile:Qing vase p1070256.jpgA ceramic is an inorganic, nonmetal solid prepared by the action of heat and subsequent cooling....
, semiconductor
Semiconductor

A semiconductor is a material that has electrical conductivity between those of a Electrical conductor and an electrical insulation; it can vary over that wide range either permanently or dynamically....
 or plastic
Plastic

Plastic is the general common term for a wide range of synthetic or semisynthetic organic chemistry solid materials suitable for the manufacture of industrial products....
/bioplastic
Bioplastic

Bioplastics are a form of plastics derived from renewable biomass sources, such as vegetable oil, corn starch, pea starch or microbiota , rather than fossil fuel plastics which are derived from petroleum....
) .

High temperature substrates includes stainless steel
Stainless steel

In metallurgy, stainless steel is defined as a steel alloy with a minimum of 10% chromium content by mass. Stainless steel does not stain, corrode, or rust as easily as ordinary steel , but it is not stain-proof....
 and polyimide
Polyimide

Polyimide is a polymer of imide monomers. The structure of imide is as shown.Thermosetting polyimides are commercially available as uncured resins, stock shapes, thin sheets, laminates and machines parts....
 film (expensive) and PET
Polyethylene terephthalate

Polyethylene tephthalate , commonly abbreviated PET, PETE, or the obsolete PETP or PET-P), is a thermoplastic polymer resin of the polyester family and is used in synthetic fibers; beverage, food and other liquid Packaging; thermoforming applications; and engineering resins often in combination with glass fiber....
 (cheap).

A thickness of less than one micrometre
Micrometre

A micrometre or micron is one Micro- of a metre, or equivalently one thousandth of a millimetre. It is also commonly known as a micron....
 is generally called a thin film
Thin film

Thin films are thin material Layer s ranging from fractions of a nanometre to several micrometres in thickness. Electronics semiconductor devices and optical coatings are the main applications benefiting from thin film construction....
 while a thickness greater than one micrometre is called a coating
Coating

Coating is a covering that is applied to an object. The aim of applying coatings is to improve surface properties of a bulk material usually referred to as a Substrate ....
.

A web
Web (manufacturing)

A web is a long thin and flexible material.A web is generally processed by moving over rollers. Between processing stages, webs are stored and transported as rolls also known as coils, packages and doffs....
 is a flexible
Flexible

Things known as Flexible include:*Flexible electronics*Flexible response*Flexible mold*Flexible employment*Flexible-fuel vehicle*Flexible rake receiver...
 substrate.








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A layer is the deposition
Deposition

Deposition or Depose may refer to:* Deposition , taking testimony outside of court* Deposition , molecules settling out of a solution* Thin-film deposition, any technique for depositing a thin film of material onto a substrate or onto previously deposited layers...
 of molecules on a substrate
Substrate

Substrate may mean:*Substrate , the material used in the bottom of an aquarium*Substrate , a molecule that is acted upon by an enzyme*Substrate , the material on which a process is conducted...
 or base (glass
Glass

Glass generally refers to a Hardness, brittle, transparency amorphous solid, such as that used for windows, many Glass Bottles, or eyewear, including, but not limited to, soda-lime glass, borosilicate glass, acrylic glass, sugar glass, Muscovite , or aluminium oxynitride....
, ceramic
Ceramic

File:Bridge from dental porcelain.jpgFile:Qing vase p1070256.jpgA ceramic is an inorganic, nonmetal solid prepared by the action of heat and subsequent cooling....
, semiconductor
Semiconductor

A semiconductor is a material that has electrical conductivity between those of a Electrical conductor and an electrical insulation; it can vary over that wide range either permanently or dynamically....
 or plastic
Plastic

Plastic is the general common term for a wide range of synthetic or semisynthetic organic chemistry solid materials suitable for the manufacture of industrial products....
/bioplastic
Bioplastic

Bioplastics are a form of plastics derived from renewable biomass sources, such as vegetable oil, corn starch, pea starch or microbiota , rather than fossil fuel plastics which are derived from petroleum....
) .

High temperature substrates includes stainless steel
Stainless steel

In metallurgy, stainless steel is defined as a steel alloy with a minimum of 10% chromium content by mass. Stainless steel does not stain, corrode, or rust as easily as ordinary steel , but it is not stain-proof....
 and polyimide
Polyimide

Polyimide is a polymer of imide monomers. The structure of imide is as shown.Thermosetting polyimides are commercially available as uncured resins, stock shapes, thin sheets, laminates and machines parts....
 film (expensive) and PET
Polyethylene terephthalate

Polyethylene tephthalate , commonly abbreviated PET, PETE, or the obsolete PETP or PET-P), is a thermoplastic polymer resin of the polyester family and is used in synthetic fibers; beverage, food and other liquid Packaging; thermoforming applications; and engineering resins often in combination with glass fiber....
 (cheap).

A thickness of less than one micrometre
Micrometre

A micrometre or micron is one Micro- of a metre, or equivalently one thousandth of a millimetre. It is also commonly known as a micron....
 is generally called a thin film
Thin film

Thin films are thin material Layer s ranging from fractions of a nanometre to several micrometres in thickness. Electronics semiconductor devices and optical coatings are the main applications benefiting from thin film construction....
 while a thickness greater than one micrometre is called a coating
Coating

Coating is a covering that is applied to an object. The aim of applying coatings is to improve surface properties of a bulk material usually referred to as a Substrate ....
.

A web
Web (manufacturing)

A web is a long thin and flexible material.A web is generally processed by moving over rollers. Between processing stages, webs are stored and transported as rolls also known as coils, packages and doffs....
 is a flexible
Flexible

Things known as Flexible include:*Flexible electronics*Flexible response*Flexible mold*Flexible employment*Flexible-fuel vehicle*Flexible rake receiver...
 substrate.

See also

  • Coating
    Coating

    Coating is a covering that is applied to an object. The aim of applying coatings is to improve surface properties of a bulk material usually referred to as a Substrate ....
  • Heterojunction
    Heterojunction

    A heterojunction is the interface that occurs between two layers or regions of dissimilar crystalline semiconductors. These semiconducting materials have unequal band gaps as opposed to a homojunction....
  • Nanoparticle
    Nanoparticle

    In nanotechnology, a particle is defined as a small object that behaves as a whole unit in terms of its transport and properties. It is further classified according to size: In terms of diameter, fine particles cover a range between 100 and 2500 nanometre, while ultrafine particles, on the other hand, are sized between 1 and 100 nanometers....
  • Organic electronics
    Organic electronics

    Organic electronics, plastic electronics or polymer electronics, is a branch of electronics that deals with Electrical Conductor polymers, plastics, or molecule....
  • Passivation
    Passivation

    Passivation is the process of making a material "passive" in relation to another material prior to using the materials together. For example, prior to storing hydrogen peroxide in an aluminium container, the container can be passivated by rinsing it with a dilute solution of nitric acid and peroxide alternating with deionized water....
  • Printed electronics
    Printed electronics

    Printed electronics is the term for a relatively new technology that defines the printing of electronics on common media such as paper, plastic, and textile using standard printing processes....
  • Sputtering
    Sputtering

    Sputtering is a process whereby atoms are ejected from a solid target material due to bombardment of the target by energetic ions. It is commonly used for thin-film deposition, etching and analytical techniques ....
  • Thermal annealing
  • TCO
    TCO

    TCO can mean:*Total cost of ownership — a method of cost analysis*Swedish Confederation of Professional Employees — a Swedish confederation of trade unions...
     (Transparent
    Transparency (optics)

    In optics, transparency is the material property of allowing light to pass through. In mineralogy, another term for this property is diaphaneity....
     and Conductive Oxide
    Oxide

    An oxide is a chemical compound contaning at least one oxygen atom as well as at least one other element. Most of the Earth's crust consists of oxides....
     layer).