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Microstructure development of sol-gel derived epitaxial LiNbO3 thin films

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 March 2011

Keiichi Nashimoto ,
Michael J. Cima ,
Paul C. McIntyre  and
Wendell E. Rhine
Keiichi Nashimoto*
Affiliation:
Ceramics Processing Research Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139
Michael J. Cima
Affiliation:
Ceramics Processing Research Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139
Paul C. McIntyre
Affiliation:
Ceramics Processing Research Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139
Wendell E. Rhine
Affiliation:
Ceramics Processing Research Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139
*
a)Present Address: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd., 3-3-5, Akasaka, Tokyo, Japan.
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Abstract

Film growth and microstructural evolution were investigated for sol-gel derived LiNbO3 thin films deposited on lattice-matched single-crystal substrates. Epitaxial LiNbO3 films of about 100 nm nominal thickness were prepared by spin coating a solution of the lithium niobium ethoxide on sapphire (0001) substrates and annealing at 400 °C or 700 °C in a humidified oxygen atmosphere. These films exhibited an epitaxial relationship with the substrate of the type LiNbO3 (0001) || α-Al2O3 (0001) and LiNbO3 [100] || α-Al2O3 [100] as determined by x-ray pole figure analysis. Transmission electron microscopy indicated the epitaxial films annealed at 400 °C consisted of slightly misoriented ∼5 nm subgrains and of numerous ∼10 nm enclosed pores. The microstructure and orientation development of these films was consistent with a heteroepitaxial nucleation and growth mechanism, in which epitaxial nuclei form at the substrate surface and grow upward into an amorphous and porous intermediate film: Epitaxial films annealed at 700 °C contained larger 150-200 nm subgrains and pinholes. Misorientations between adjacent subgrains appeared to be significantly smaller in films annealed at 700 °C than those in films annealed at 400 °C. Hydrolysis of the alkoxide precursor solution prior to spin coating promoted the development of polycrystalline films on single-crystal sapphire substrates. Infrared spectra and thermal analysis indicated that, independent of the degree of the solution hydrolysis, nucleation of LiNbO3 was immediately preceded by decomposition of an amorphous carbonate intermediate phase.

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Journal of Materials Research , Volume 10 , Issue 10 , October 1995 , pp. 2564 - 2572
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1995

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