| an effect that turns special types of glassy, thin films into semiconductors upon application of low voltage. |
Ov·shin·sky effect  (ŏv-shĭn'skē, ôv-) n. The effect by which certain kinds of glass films that are normally nonconductive become semiconductive upon the application of a small voltage. [After Stanford Robert Ovshinsky (born 1922), American inventor.] |
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