UC Berkeley

The growth of new oxide phases is explored with multiple surface orientations Motivated by combinatorial and high-throughput approaches to the discovery of antibodies and drugs in pharmaceutical research, efforts like the Materials Genome Initiative ( 1 ) have been envisioned to develop similar algorithms for the discovery, design, and realization of next-generation materials, such as superconducting ( 2 ), magnetoresistive ( 3 ), dielectric ( 4 ), and luminescent ( 5 ) materials. However, such experimental approaches have not become pervasive across all classes of materials. For example, in the study of thin-film, functional complex oxides, systematic, small-scale exploration has remained the standard. However, studies like that of Wittkamper et al. ( 6 ), which explore many different substrates by using a polycrystalline substrate, stand poised to open the door for high-throughput studies of complex materials.