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We have produced a novel form of amorphous silicon (a-Si) using ultra-high-vacuum molecular beam epitaxy. By depositing silicon atoms onto a fused quartz substrate at ∼100°C, we have obtained a silicon based material that lacks the characteristic periodicity of crystalline silicon but nevertheless has 98% of its density. Infrared and secondary ion mass spectroscopic measurements demonstrate that there...