Electrical and Optical Properties of LiNbO3/CaCu3Ti4O12 Heterostructures on Si

2015 ◽  
Vol 1805 ◽  
Author(s):  
Javad R. Gatabi ◽  
Kevin A. Lyon ◽  
Shafiqur Rahman ◽  
Hanu Arava ◽  
Juan S Rojas-Ramirez ◽  
...  

ABSTRACTThe role of ferroelectric LiNbO3 (LNB) in altering the frequency dependence of the capacitance of CaCu3Ti4O12 (CCTO) thin films has been investigated. A cost effective spin coating deposition process was used to integrate the oxide heterostructures onto silicon substrates. This study showed that the frequency stability of the CCTO/LNB structure was much improved when the crystallization conditions and physical dimension of each layer were optimized. To integrate this structure with current silicon technology, heterostructures of CCTO and LNB thin films were fabricated on HF terminated Si using chemical solution deposition. It was found that the order of deposition of the two layers was important for the structural quality of the heterostructures with the CCTO layer followed by the LNB layer being the preferred structure. In addition to improvement of the capacitance variation with frequency, the heterostructures also provide a path to tuning the frequency of operation.

Coatings ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 307
Author(s):  
Diana Griesiute ◽  
Dovydas Karoblis ◽  
Lina Mikoliunaite ◽  
Aleksej Zarkov ◽  
Andrei N. Salak ◽  
...  

In the present work, polycrystalline Bi0.67La0.33Fe0.5Sc0.5O3 thin films were synthesized using a simple and cost-effective chemical solution deposition process employing the spin coating technique. In order to check the feasibility of the fabrication of thin films on various types of substrates, the films were deposited on Pt-coated silicon, silicon, sapphire, corundum, fused silica and glass. Based on the results of thermogravimetric analysis of precursor and thermal stability study, it was determined that the optimal annealing temperature for the formation of perovskite structure is 600 °C. It was observed that the relative intensity of the pseudocubic peaks (001)p and (011)p in the XRD patterns is influenced by the nature of substrates, suggesting that the formed crystallites have some preferred orientation. Roughness of the films was determined to be dependent on the nature of the substrate.


1999 ◽  
Vol 606 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Bhaskar ◽  
S. B. Majumder ◽  
P. S. Dobal ◽  
R. S. Katiyar ◽  
A. L. M. Cruz ◽  
...  

AbstractIn the present work we have optimized the process parameters to yield homogeneous, smooth ruthenium oxide (RuO2) thin films on silicon substrates by a solution deposition technique using RuCl3.×.H2O as the precursor material. Films were annealed in a temperature range of 300°C to 700°C, and it was found that RuO2 crystallizes at a temperature as low as 400°C. The crystallinity of the films improves with increased annealing temperature and the resistivity decreases from 4.86µΩ-m (films annealed at 400°C) to 2.94pµΩ (films annealed at 700°C). Ageing of the precursor solution has a pronounced effect on the measured resistivities of RuO2 thin films. It was found that the measured room temperature resistivities increases from 2.94µΩ-m to 45.7µΩ-m when the precursor sol is aged for aged 60 days. AFM analysis on the aged films shows that the grain size and the surface roughness of the annealed films increase with the ageing of the precursor solution. From XPS analysis we have detected the presence of non-transformed RuCl3 in case of films prepared from aged solution. We propose, that solution ageing inhibits the transformation of RuCl3 to RuO2 during the annealing of the films. The deterioration of the conductivity with solution ageing is thought to be related with the chloride contamination in the annealed films.


1997 ◽  
Vol 12 (5) ◽  
pp. 1179-1182 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lirong Zheng ◽  
Xuhong Hu ◽  
Pingxiong Yang ◽  
W-ping Xu ◽  
Chenglu Lin

Ferroelectric thin films of Pb(Zr, Ti)O3 (PZT) were fabricated on platinum-coated silicon using the process of direct-current glow discharge assisted laser deposition, where the substrate was electrically grounded. The films deposited at 730 °C with +800 V discharge voltage are oriented mostly with the c-axis perpendicular to the substrate surface, and exhibit good ferroelectric hysteresis loops. A possible mechanism for the improvement of the deposition process has been proposed.


1995 ◽  
Vol 402 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Döscher ◽  
B. Selle ◽  
M. Pauli ◽  
F. Kothe ◽  
J. Szymanski ◽  
...  

AbstractAmorphous irondisilicide thin films were deposited on silicon substrates in a RF sputtering process, followed by rapid thermal crystallization by means of moving the thin film beneath a line-shaped electron beam to form β-FeSi2. Depending on the deposition process parameters, films of a different stoichiometry can be produced. The deviations from the 1:2 stoichiometry, which have been determined by Rutherford Backscattering (RBS), are related to changes in the microstructure (studied by microscopic methods like TEM and AFM), the infrared phonon spectra (measured by FTIR spectroscopy) and the electrical properties of the crystallized films. The microstructure of the iron disilicide thin films is improved when the composition significantly deviates from 2.0, probably due to silicon interstitials in the silicide thin film. Films of different stoichiometry result in p- or n-type thin films with carrier densities below 5×1018cm−3 and hall mobilities up to 180cm 2/Vs. First results show that not only β-FeSi2-siliconheterojunctions as reported before but also pn-β-FeSi2-homojunctions show rectifying behavior. Rapid thermal processing with the line electron beam leads to a further improvement of the film quality when the scan velocity is increased up to the order of several cm/s.


2013 ◽  
Vol 121 (1416) ◽  
pp. 638-643 ◽  
Author(s):  
Takanori KIGUCHI ◽  
Tomohito TSUKAMOTO ◽  
Cangyu FAN ◽  
Masahiko NISHIJIMA ◽  
Toyohiko J. KONNO

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
D. Sciacqua ◽  
C. Pattyn ◽  
A. Jagodar ◽  
E. von Wahl ◽  
T. Lecas ◽  
...  

Abstract The plasma based synthesis of thin films is frequently used to deposit ultra-thin and pinhole-free films on a wide class of different substrates. However, the synthesis of thin films by means of low temperature plasmas is rather complex due to the great number of different species (neutrals, radicals, ions) that are potentially involved in the deposition process. This contribution deals with polymerization processes in a capacitively coupled discharge operated in a mixture of argon and aniline where the latter is a monomer, which is used for the production of plasma-polymerized polyaniline, a material belonging to the class of conductive polymers. This work will present a particular experimental approach that allows to (partially) distinguish the contribution of different species to the film growth and thus to control to a certain extent the properties of the resulting material. The control of the species flux emerging from the plasma and contributing to the film growth also sheds new light on the deposition process, in particular with respect to the role of the ion component. The analysis of the produced films has been performed by means of Fourier Transform Infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) and Near Edge X-ray Absorption Fine Structure spectroscopy (NEXAFS).


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