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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 10, 2004
Filed:
Aug. 24, 2001
Damian A. Hajduk, San Jose, CA (US);
Eric D. Carlson, Cupertino, CA (US);
J. Christopher Freitag, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Oleg Kolosov, San Jose, CA (US);
James R. Engstrom, Ithaca, NY (US);
Adam Safir, Berkeley, CA (US);
Ravi Srinivasan, Mountain View, CA (US);
Leonid Matsiev, San Jose, CA (US);
Symyx Technologies, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
One aspect of the present invention provides instruments for measuring mechanical properties of a combinatorial library of materials. The instruments include at least one capacitor to which a member of a library of material samples is removably secured for testing; at least one voltage source for delivering one or more forces to each library member; and at least one sensing device for monitoring the response each library member to the one or more forces. Another aspect of the present invention provides methods of screening a combinatorial library of materials where the method monitors the responses of a plurality of samples on a substrate to a force induced by a capacitor.