Pioneered by the pharmaceutical industry and adapted for the purposes of materials science and engineering, the combinatorial method is now widely considered a watershed in the accelerated discovery, development, and optimization of new materials. Combinatorial Materials Synthesis reveals the gears behind combinatorial materials chemistry and thin-

Xiao-Dong Xiang is a senior staff scientist and principal investigator and Intematix Corporation, Morago, California. Earning a 2000 R&D Award and 1996 Discover Magazine Award for Technological Innovation for his work in the combinatorial synthesis of novel materials, Dr. Xiang has authored or coauthored over 75 papers and holds over 25 patents to date. He has invented a number of high-sensitivity instruments, including a spatially resolved spin resonant microscope and a scanning evanescent microwave probe. He received the B.E. degree from Nanjing College of Electrical Communication Engineering, China, the M.S. degree from the Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing, and the Ph.D. degree (1989) from the University of Kentucky, Lexington. Ichiro Takeuchi is an Assistant Professor with the Department of Materials Science and Engineering and Center for Superconductivity Research, University of Maryland, College Park. A recipient of the Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Program Award and the National Science Foundation CAREER Award, he has published more than 60 refereed journal articles. Dr. Takeuchi is a member of the American Physical Society, the Materials Research Society, and the American Vacuum Society. He received the B.S. degree from the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, and the Ph.D. degree (1996) from the University of Maryland, College Park

Foreword, Preface, Contributors, 1. Introduction, 2. Multiple-Sample Concept: The Forerunner of Combinatorial Materials Science, 3. The Continuous Composition Spread Approach, 4. Combinatorial Approach to Ferroelectric/Dielectric Materials, 5. Parallel Synthesis of Artificially Designed Lattices and Devices, 6. Combinatorial Synthesis of Display Phosphors, 7. Combinatorial Ion Synthesis and Ion Beam Analysis of Materials Libraries, 8. Mapping of Physical Properties: Composition Phase Diagrams of Complex Materials Systems Using Continuous Composition Materials Chips, 9. Temperature-Dependent Materials Research with Micromachined Array Platforms, 10. X-Ray Techniques for Characterization of Combinatorial Materials Libraries, 11. High-Throughput Screening of Electrical Impedance of Functional Materials by Evanescent Microwave Probe, 12. Combinatorial Computational Chemistry Approach in the Design of New Catalysts and Functional Materials, 13. Computational Informatics: Guided Discovery for Combinatorial Experiments, Index