Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 February 2011
An ultra high vacuum system fitted with thermal effusion cells that heat 20cc of material to temperatures as high as 2000 °C is being used to synthesize thin film and multilayer ceramics from their constituent elements. A molecular source for oxygen used in conjunction with these effusion cells allows oxides of Al, Ti, Cu, and Y to be grown with compositional modulation controlling growth rate and stoichiometry.
Research sponsored jointly by the U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research under interagency agreement DOE NO. 40-1514-84, USAF No. AFOSRISSA86-033 and both the Office of Energy Utilization Research, Energy Conversion and Utilization Technologies (ECUT) Program and the Division of Materials Sciences, U.S. Department of Energy, under contract DE-AC05-840R21400 with the Martin Marietta Energy Systems, Inc.