Inversion layer may refer to one of the following:
- Inversion (meteorology), a layer within which an atmospheric property is inverted, i.e., its change is deviated from the normal pattern
- Inversion layer (semiconductors), a layer in a semiconductor material where the type of the majority carriers changes to its opposite under certain conditions
Famous quotes containing the word layer:
“The writer in me can look as far as an African-American woman and stop. Often that writer looks through the African-American woman. Race is a layer of being, but not a culmination.”
—Thylias Moss, African American poet. As quoted in the Wall Street Journal (May 12, 1994)