The surface in range of the beam is covered with some amorphous material.

Both crystalline and amorphous materials can be analyzed in this fashion.

The word was used to mean an amorphous, unformed material in Psalms and medieval writing.

The same is true of polystyrene and many other thermoplastic, amorphous, materials.

We have already seen that amorphous materials such as polymers have chain structures.

It is usually done by first depositing a film of amorphous material on a crystalline substrate.

The company has also developed potentially valuable patents on amorphous materials and the means of processing them.

But all this does not help with amorphous (non-crystalline) materials such as oxide glasses.

Then, in 1972, he began the work on composite, disordered and amorphous materials that lasted until his retirement.

There are several ways in which crystalline and amorphous materials can be engineered to increase their yield strength.