title: Evaluation of the Current Status of the Combinatorial Approach for the Study of Phase Diagrams.
abstract: This paper provides an evaluation of the effectiveness of using the high throughput combinatorial approach for preparing phase diagrams of thin film and bulk materials. Our evaluation is based primarily on examples of combinatorial phase diagrams that have been reported in the literature as well as based on our own laboratory experiments. Various factors that affect the construction of these phase diagrams are examined. Instrumentation and analytical approaches needed to improve data acquisition and data analysis are summarized.
authors.affiliation: National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD 20899.
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Wong-Ng
keywords: combinatorial approach; diffusion couple/diffusion multiple techniques; evaluation; phase diagrams; thin film phase diagram techniques