A technique used in the manufacture of semiconductor devices in which a molecular beam is used to deposit a very thin or monomolecular layer of a substance on to a crystalline substrate; abbreviated MBE.
Origin
1970s.
Definition of molecular beam epitaxy in US English:
molecular beam epitaxy
noun
Manufacturing Technology
A technique used in the manufacture of semiconductor devices in which a molecular beam is used to deposit a very thin or monomolecular layer of a substance on to a crystalline substrate; abbreviated MBE.