“…According to a recent review (Ahvenniemi, 2017), ALD was invented and developed independently with different names: molecular layering (ML) since the 1960s in the Soviet Union (Ahvenniemi, 2017;Shevjakov, 1967;Mokrushin, 2019), and atomic layer epitaxy (ALE) since the 1970s in Finland (Ahvenniemi, 2017;Suntola, 1977). In addition to ALD (Leskelä, 1990) it has also been called molecular deposition (Aleskovskii, 1979), atomic layer evaporation (ALE) (Ahonen, 1980), molecular stratification (Malygin, 1980), molecular lamination (Kopylov, 1981), chemical assembly (Egorov, 1984), molecular layer epitaxy (MLE) (Nishizawa, 1985) and atomic layer growth (ALG) (Aoyagi, 1987).…”