Utilizing Pulsed Laser Deposition Lateral Inhomogeneity as a Tool in Combinatorial Material Science

ACS Combinatorial Science

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 209-216

  Keller, David A ^a   Ginsburg, Adam ^a   Barad, Hannah Noa ^a   Shimanovich, Klimentiy ^a   Bouhadana, Yaniv ^a   Rosh Hodesh, Eli ^a   Takeuchi, Ichiro ^b   Aviv, Hagit ^a   Tischler, Yaakov R ^a   Anderson, Assaf Y ^a   Zaban, Arie ^a  

^a BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

all oxide photovolatics; combinatorial material science; continuous compositional spread (CCS); hematite ( Fe2< inf>O3< inf>); hierarchical clustering; pulsed laser deposition (PLD); thin films

Indexed keywords

IRON DERIVATIVE; MOLECULAR LIBRARY;

CHEMISTRY; COMBINATORIAL CHEMISTRY; DEVICES; LASER; MATERIALS TESTING; MOLECULAR LIBRARY; PROCEDURES;

COMBINATORIAL CHEMISTRY TECHNIQUES; IRON COMPOUNDS; LASERS; MATERIALS TESTING; SMALL MOLECULE LIBRARIES;

EID: 84927920410     PISSN: 21568952     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/co500094h     Document Type: Article

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