Concept and development of combinatorial laser MBE for oxide electronics

As a treasure island of new functional materials, metal oxides attract rapi dly growing interest as exemplified by the high-T-c cuprates and quantum. f unctional perovskites. The development of new efficient instrument to const ruct artificially designed crystal lattices and hetro-junctions is consider ed to facilitate the systematic exploration of new materials, properties, a nd application of oxides. Powerful tools for this purpose are designed base d on combinatorial chemistry and molecular layer epitaxy. With focuses on t he concept and method, this novel technology of combinatorial laser MBE is reported and demonstrated to be useful for high throughput synthesis of fun ctional oxide thin films and layered lattices. (C) 2000 Published by Elsevi er Science B.V.