Methods
High Throughput Experiments (HTE)
Materials Discovery efforts rely on a high-throughput experimental (HTE) combinatorial materials science approach, followed by traditional targeted experiments. Our HTE approach is based on the extensive set of combinatorial synthesis, spatially resolved characterization, and automated data analysis capabilities developed over the past years.
We have several physical vapor deposition chambers, and for each we can create intentional, well-controlled gradients in chemical composition, substrate temperature, film thickness, and other synthesis parameters across the substrate, resulting in a material library.
Each measurement instrument below has an automatically controlled X-Y motion stage that enables mapping of the materials libraries as a function of position, and hence, composition / temperature and other gradients that the material libraries have.
Enormous amounts of data are created by combinatorial synthesis and spatially resolved characterization of the material libraries. So we have developed both local and network-based analysis capabilities to turn these data into knowledge.