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Pages 133-134

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... * Excimer laser- A laser containing a noble gas, such as helium or neon, which is based on a transition between an excited state in which a metastable bond exists between two gas atoms and a rapidly dissociating ground state.
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... Maser An acronym formed from microwave amplification by stimulated emission of radiation. Molecular beam epitaxy A technique for growing single crystals of compound semiconductor thin films through the molecule-by-molecule deposition of material from a molecular beam.


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