In a manner relating to or achieved through epitaxy; describing how something is grown or arranged in ordered atomic layers on a substrate.
From 'epitaxial' plus the adverb-forming suffix '-ly,' creating an adverb that modifies verbs and adjectives to indicate the method or manner of epitaxial processes.
When scientists say they 'epitaxially grew' a semiconductor layer, they're using a technical term that masks an almost magical process—watching individual atoms arrange themselves in perfect geometric patterns because they're following the atomic blueprint beneath them.
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