Microstructure and Electrical Properties of PZT Thin Film Heterostructures on Silicon by pulsed laser deposition

1999 ◽  
Vol 596 ◽  
Author(s):  
Soma Chattopadhyay ◽  
A. K. Sharma ◽  
Alex Kvit ◽  
Chunming Jin ◽  
C. B. Lee ◽  
...  

AbstractWe have been successful in the fabrication of (001) oriented epitaxial PZT films on YBCO/SrTiO3/MgO/TiN/Si heterostructures by pulsed laser deposition. The films were observed to be single phase by X-ray diffraction. The deposition parameters were varied to obtain the best epitaxial layer for each of the compounds. Transmission electron microscopy was employed for understanding of the structure, crystallinity and interfaces for each of these epilayers. Dielectric and P-E hysteresis loop measurements were carried out with evaporated Ag electrodes. The dielectric constant for the films was found to be around 380–400. The value of saturation polarization Ps was between 40–50 μC/cm2 and the coercive field Ec varied from 45–55 kV/cm. Integration of PZT films with silicon will be useful for future memory and micromechanical devices.

2000 ◽  
Vol 623 ◽  
Author(s):  
Soma Chattopadhyay ◽  
Alex Kvit ◽  
V. Sreenivasank ◽  
A.K. Sharma ◽  
C. B. Lee ◽  
...  

AbstractEpitaxial thin films of PbZr0.52Ti0.48O3 (PZT) have been synthesized successfully on SrRuO3/SrTiO3/MgO/TiN/Si heterostructures by pulsed laser deposition. The films were single phase and had (001) orientation. The deposition parameters were varied to obtain the best epitaxial layer for each of the compounds. Transmission electron microscopy indicated good epitaxy for the entire heterostructure and sharp interfaces between the epilayers. Dielectric and P-E hysteresis loop measurements were carried out with evaporated Ag electrodes. The dielectric constant for the films was found to be between 400-450. The value of saturation polarization Ps, was between 55-60 νC/cm2 and the coercive field Ec varied from 60-70 kV/cm. Integration of PZT films with silicon will be useful for future memory and micromechanical devices.


2003 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 111-114 ◽  
Author(s):  
Walter M. Gilmore ◽  
Soma Chattopadhyay ◽  
Alex Kvit ◽  
A. K. Sharma ◽  
C. B. Lee ◽  
...  

Epitaxial thin films of PbZr0.52Ti0.48O3 (PZT) were synthesized successfully on SrRuO3/SrTiO3/MgO/TiN/Si heterostructures by pulsed laser deposition. The films were single phase and had (001) orientation. The deposition parameters were varied to obtain the best epitaxial layer for each of the compounds. Transmission electron microscopy indicated good epitaxy for the entire heterostructure and sharp interfaces between the epilayers. Dielectric and P–E hysteresis loop measurements were carried out with evaporated Ag electrodes. The dielectric constant for the films was found to be between 400–450. The value of saturation polarization Ps was between 55–60 μC/cm2, and the coercive field Ec varied from 60–70 kV/cm. Integration of PZT films with silicon will be useful for future memory and micromechanical devices.


2014 ◽  
Vol 936 ◽  
pp. 282-286
Author(s):  
Ying Wen Duan

Single-crystalline, epitaxial LaFeO3 films with 5 at. % substitution of Pd on the Fe site are grown on (100) SrTiO3 substrate by pulsed-laser deposition technique. The epitaxial orientation relationships are (110)[001]LFPO||(100)[001]STO. X-ray diffraction and transmission electron microscopy reveal that the LFPO films have high structural quality and an atomically sharp LFPO/STO interface. After reduction treatments of as-grown LFPO films, very little Pd escaped the LFPO lattice onto the film surface, the formed Pd (100) particles are oriented epitaxially, and parallel to the LFPO films surface.


1993 ◽  
Vol 327 ◽  
Author(s):  
Randolph E. Treece ◽  
James S. Horwitz ◽  
Douglas B. Chrisey

AbstractThin films of diamond and diamond-like carbon (DLC) are technologically important materials that serve as hard, scratch resistant and chemically inert coatings for tools and optics. Recent calculations suggest that β-C3N4 should be harder than diamond. We have deposited carbon nitride (CNx) thin films by pulsed laser deposition. The films were grown from a graphite target in a nitrogen background. The nitrogen source was either (a) a N2 gas atmosphere, or (b) a N2+/N+ ion beam generated by a Kaufman ion gun. A wide range of deposition parameters were investigated, such as deposition pressure (0.3-900 mTorr N2), substrate temperature (50 and 600°C), and laser fluence (1-4 J/cm2) and laser repetition rate (1-10 Hz). The films have been characterized by Rutherford Backscattering Spectroscopy, thin-film X-ray diffraction, scanning electron microscopy, and micro-Raman spectroscopy. In general, the films were nitrogen deficient with a maximum nitrogen to carbon ratio (N/C) of 0.45 and a shift in the G band Raman peak consistent with amorphous CNx (a-CNx).


1993 ◽  
Vol 317 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tsvetanka Zheleva ◽  
K. Jagannadham ◽  
N. Biunno ◽  
J. Narayan

ABSTRACTEpitaxial (110) titanium nitride films have been grown on (100) GaAs by pulsed laser deposition technique. The film quality has been found to be a strong function of the processing parameters. The films have been characterized using four point probe resistivity technique, Raman spectroscopy, X-ray diffraction analysis, and transmission electron Microscopy. Single crystal films were obtained at the deposition temperature 450° C and the room temperature resistivity was found to be 49.7 ΜΩ-cm. The epitaxial orientation relationship of the TiN films with the substrate is given by [001]TiN//[110] GaAs and [īlO]TiN// [līO]GaAs. Modeling studies have been performed to characterize the domain epitaxial growth in these large mismatch systems.


2016 ◽  
Vol vol1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Billal Allouche ◽  
Yaovi Gagou ◽  
M. El Marssi

By pulsed laser deposition, lead potassium niobate Pb2KNb5O15 was grown on (001) oriented Gd3Ga5O12 substrate using a platinum buffer layer. The PKN thin films were characterized by X-Ray diffraction and Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM). The dependence of their structural properties as a function of the deposition parameters was studied. It has been found that the out of plane orientation of PKN film depends on the oxygen pressure used during the growth. Indeed, PKN thin film is oriented [001] for low pressure and is oriented [530] for high pressure. For these two orientations, the crystalline quality of PKN film was determined using omega scans.


2005 ◽  
Vol 872 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vijay Rawat ◽  
Timothy D. Sands

AbstractTiN/GaN multilayers with periods ranging from 5 nm to 50 nm were grown by reactive pulsed laser deposition (PLD) using elemental metal targets in an ammonia ambient at 20mtorr onto Si(100), MgO(100) and sapphire(0001) substrates. For growth on Si and MgO substrates, an epitaxial 40 nm thick TiN buffer layer was deposited prior to deposition of the multilayers. An epitaxial 150 nm GaN buffer layer was grown on sapphire substrates. For all substrates, layer thicknesses and periods investigated, x-ray diffraction and cross-sectional transmission electron microscopy revealed {0001} texture for GaN, and {111} texture for TiN in the multilayers. Both TiN layers and GaN layers thicker than ∼ 2nm appear to be continuous, with no evidence of agglomeration. Both phases are crystalline, with lateral grain sizes comparable to the layer thickness. These results suggest that epitaxy will not be necessary to fabricate pinhole free metal/semiconductor multilayers in the nitride system.


1999 ◽  
Vol 14 (6) ◽  
pp. 2355-2358 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. H. Corbett ◽  
G. Catalan ◽  
R. M. Bowman ◽  
J. M. Gregg

Pulsed laser deposition has been used to make two sets of lead magnesium niobate thin films grown on single-crystal h100j MgO substrates. One set was fabricated using a perovskite-rich target while the other used a pyrochlore-rich target. It was found that the growth conditions required to produce almost 100% perovskite Pb(Mg1/3Nb2/3)O3 (PMN) films were largely independent of target crystallography. Films were characterized crystallographically using x-ray diffraction and plan view transmission electron microscopy, chemically using energy dispersive x-ray analysis, and electrically by fabricating a planar thin film capacitor structure and monitoring capacitance as a function of temperature. All characterization techniques indicated that perovskite PMN thin films had been successfully fabricated.


2001 ◽  
Vol 16 (9) ◽  
pp. 2467-2470 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. C. Caylor ◽  
M. S. Sander ◽  
A. M. Stacy ◽  
J. S. Harper ◽  
R. Gronsky ◽  
...  

Heteroepitaxial growth of the cubic skutterudite phase CoSb3 on (001) InSb substrates was achieved by pulsed laser deposition using a substrate temperature of 270 °C and a bulk CoSb3 target with 0.75 at.% excess Sb. An InSb (a0 = 4 0.6478 nm) substrate was chosen for its lattice registry with the antimonide skutterudites (e.g., CoSb3 with a = 0 4 0.9034 nm) on the basis of a presumed 45° rotated relationship with the InSb zinc blende structure. X-ray diffraction and transmission electron microscopy confirmed both the structure of the films and their epitaxial relationship: (001)CoSb3 ∥ (001)InSb; [100]CoSb3 ∥ [110]InSb.


1995 ◽  
Vol 410 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. E. Cosgrove ◽  
P. A. Rosenthal ◽  
D. Hamblen ◽  
D. B. Fenner ◽  
C. Yang

ABSTRACTWe have grown thin films of SiC by pulsed laser deposition on silicon (100) and vicinal and non-vicinal 6H SiC (0001) substrates using a quadrupled YAG laser and a high purity dense polycrystalline SiC target. Epitaxy on all three substrate types was confirmed by x-ray diffraction, transmission electron microscopy and electron diffraction. Composition of the films was measured by Rutherford backscattering spectrometry and Scanning Auger Microprobe.


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