High throughput screening of novel oxide conductors using SIMS

Conventional synthesis of ceramic oxide compositions is time consuming and consequently limits the compositions that can be studied. Away round this is the use of combinatorial methods to explore much wider ranges of compositions. Using an inkjet based robot system; London University Search Instrument (LUSI) combinatorial arrays of ceramic dot samples can be produced. The first part of the study consists of the characterisation of a printed array of La0.8Sr0.2CoO3 d to ensure the reproducibility and quality of the ceramic dots and suitability for isotopic exchange experiments