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  Epitaxial bismuth-layer-structured perovskite ferroelectric thin films grown by pulsed laser deposition
 
 
Title: Epitaxial bismuth-layer-structured perovskite ferroelectric thin films grown by pulsed laser deposition
Author: Pignolet, Alain
Satyalakshmi, Kayyar M.
Alexe, Marin
Zakharov, Nikolai D.
Harnagea, Catalin
Senz, Stephan
Hesse, Dietrich
Gosele, Ulrich
Appeared in: Integrated ferroelectrics
Paging: Volume 26 (1999) nr. 1-4 pages 21-29
Year: 1999-10-01
Contents: Thin films of bismuth-layer-structured perovskites such as SrBi2Ta2O9 (SBT) and BaBi4Ti4O15 (BBiT) with preferred orientations have been grown by pulsed laser deposition (PLD) on epitaxial conducting LaNiO3 (LNO) electrodes on single crystalline (100) SrTiO3 (STO) or on top of epitaxial buffer layers on (100) silicon. X-ray diffraction (XRD) analysis and cross-section electron microscopy reveal that the films consist of c-axis oriented regions and mixed a-axis and c-axis oriented regions. The regions with mixed a-axis and c-axis orientation show high surface roughness due to the rectangular crystallites protruding out of the surface, whereas the c-axis oriented regions show a smooth surface morphology. In the mixed a-axis and c-axis oriented regions, the SBT and BBiT films exhibit saturated ferroelectric hysteresis loops with a remnant polarization Pr of about 2 μC/cm2 and coercive fields Ec of about 20 kV/cm for SBT and 60 kV/cm for BBiT. No polarization fatigue was observed up to 108 cycles neither for SBT nor for BBiT films. The regions having c-axis orientation with a smooth surface morphology in contrast exhibit a linear P-E curve. The results show that the ferroelectric properties of a planar capacitor consisting of ferroelectric Bi-layer-structured perovskites depend on the crystalline orientation of the film.
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Source file: Elektronische Wetenschappelijke Tijdschriften
 
 

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