SBIR Phase I: Nanoscale Heterostructures via a Combinatorial Approach

这个小企业创新研究（SBIR）第一阶段项目的重点是开发一种新的、基于脉冲激光沉积的方法，以组合方法产生纳米级异质结构。纳米异质结构，或“超晶格”，先前已被证明显示出其组成材料的已知特性所无法预料的特性。然而，由于缺乏高通量的合成方法，对这种结构的系统研究一直是不可能的。所提出的方法是基于一种新引入的专利连续成分扩散技术，将适用于各种材料，包括磁性材料，压电材料和光学材料。该计划的直接结果将是自动化设备的可用性，用于生长丰富多样的纳米异质结构。由于目前市场上还没有这样的仪器，该公司预计将向大学和工业研究实验室销售大量产品。

This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project focuses on the development of a new,pulsed laser deposition based method to the combinatorial approach for generating nanoscale heterostructures. Nanoscale heterostructures, or "superlattices", have previously been shown to exhibit properties that are not expected from the known characteristics of the constituent materials. However, a systematic study of such structures has been impossible due to the lack of a high-throughput synthesis method. The proposed approach is based on a newly introduced, patented continuous-compositional spread technique and will be applicable to a wide variety of materials, including magnetic materials, piezoelectric materials, and optical materials.The direct result of this program will be the availability of an automated apparatus for the growth of a rich variety of nanoscale heterostructures. Since such an instrument is not currently available on the market, the company anticipates strong sales to university and industrial research laboratories.