Wide-Surface Furnace for In Situ X-Ray Diffraction of Combinatorial Samples using a High-Throughput Approach

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Autori principali: Cordaro, Giulio, Sirvent, Juande, Mocuta, Cristian, Buzi, Fjorelo, Martin, Thierry, Baiutti, Federico, Morata, Alex, Tarancòn, Albert, Thiaudière, Dominique, Dezanneau, Guilhem
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author Cordaro, Giulio
Sirvent, Juande
Mocuta, Cristian
Buzi, Fjorelo
Martin, Thierry
Baiutti, Federico
Morata, Alex
Tarancòn, Albert
Thiaudière, Dominique
Dezanneau, Guilhem
author_facet Cordaro, Giulio
Sirvent, Juande
Mocuta, Cristian
Buzi, Fjorelo
Martin, Thierry
Baiutti, Federico
Morata, Alex
Tarancòn, Albert
Thiaudière, Dominique
Dezanneau, Guilhem
contents The combinatorial approach applied to functional oxides has enabled the production of material libraries that formally contain infinite compositions. A complete ternary diagram can be obtained by pulsed laser deposition (PLD) on 100 mm silicon wafers. However, interest in such materials libraries is only meaningful if high-throughput characterization enables the information extraction from the as-deposited library in a reasonable time. While much commercial equipment allows for XY-resolved characterization at room temperature, very few sample holders have been made available to investigate structural, chemical, and functional properties at high temperatures in controlled atmospheres. In the present work, we present a furnace that enables the study of 100 mm wafers as a function of temperature. This furnace has a dome to control the atmosphere, typically varying from nitrogen gas to pure oxygen atmosphere with external control. We present the design of such a furnace and an example of X-ray diffraction (XRD) and fluorescence (XRF) measurements performed at the DiffAbs beamline of the SOLEIL synchrotron. We apply this high-throughput approach to a combinatorial library up to 735 {\textdegree}C in nitrogen and calculate the thermal expansion coefficients (TEC) of the ternary system using custom-made MATLAB codes. The TEC analysis revealed the potential limitations of Vegard's law in predicting lattice variations for high-entropy materials.
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spellingShingle Wide-Surface Furnace for In Situ X-Ray Diffraction of Combinatorial Samples using a High-Throughput Approach
Cordaro, Giulio
Sirvent, Juande
Mocuta, Cristian
Buzi, Fjorelo
Martin, Thierry
Baiutti, Federico
Morata, Alex
Tarancòn, Albert
Thiaudière, Dominique
Dezanneau, Guilhem
Materials Science
Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability
Methodology
The combinatorial approach applied to functional oxides has enabled the production of material libraries that formally contain infinite compositions. A complete ternary diagram can be obtained by pulsed laser deposition (PLD) on 100 mm silicon wafers. However, interest in such materials libraries is only meaningful if high-throughput characterization enables the information extraction from the as-deposited library in a reasonable time. While much commercial equipment allows for XY-resolved characterization at room temperature, very few sample holders have been made available to investigate structural, chemical, and functional properties at high temperatures in controlled atmospheres. In the present work, we present a furnace that enables the study of 100 mm wafers as a function of temperature. This furnace has a dome to control the atmosphere, typically varying from nitrogen gas to pure oxygen atmosphere with external control. We present the design of such a furnace and an example of X-ray diffraction (XRD) and fluorescence (XRF) measurements performed at the DiffAbs beamline of the SOLEIL synchrotron. We apply this high-throughput approach to a combinatorial library up to 735 {\textdegree}C in nitrogen and calculate the thermal expansion coefficients (TEC) of the ternary system using custom-made MATLAB codes. The TEC analysis revealed the potential limitations of Vegard's law in predicting lattice variations for high-entropy materials.
title Wide-Surface Furnace for In Situ X-Ray Diffraction of Combinatorial Samples using a High-Throughput Approach
topic Materials Science
Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability
Methodology
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.17225