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Development of Scanning Microwave Microscope for High-Throughput Characterization of Combinatorial Dielectric Thin Film

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 March 2011

Noriaki Okazaki
Affiliation:
National Institute for Materials Science, 1-1 Namiki, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0044, Japan
Parhat Ahmet
Affiliation:
National Institute for Materials Science, 1-1 Namiki, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0044, Japan
Toyohiro Chikyow
Affiliation:
National Institute for Materials Science, 1-1 Namiki, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0044, Japan
Hiroyuki Odagawa
Affiliation:
Research Institute of Electrical Communication
Yasuo Cho
Affiliation:
Research Institute of Electrical Communication
Tomoteru Fukumura
Affiliation:
National Institute for Materials Science, 1-1 Namiki, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0044, Japan Institute for Materials Research, Tohoku University, 2-1-1 Katahira, Aoba-ku, Sendai 980-8577, Japan
Masashi Kawasaki
Affiliation:
National Institute for Materials Science, 1-1 Namiki, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0044, Japan Institute for Materials Research, Tohoku University, 2-1-1 Katahira, Aoba-ku, Sendai 980-8577, Japan
Makoto Ohtani
Affiliation:
Department of Innovative and Engineered Materials, Tokyo Institute of Technology, 4259 Nagatsuta-cho, Midori-ku, Yokohama 226-8502, Japan
Hideomi Koinuma
Affiliation:
National Institute for Materials Science, 1-1 Namiki, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0044, Japan Frontier Collaborative Research Center and 6Materials and Structures Laboratory, Tokyo Institute of Technology, 4259 Nagatsuta-cho, Midori-ku, Yokohama 226-8503, Japan
Tetsuya Hasegawa
Affiliation:
National Institute for Materials Science, 1-1 Namiki, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0044, Japan
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Abstract

A scanning microwave microscope (Sm M) for high-throughput characterization of combinatorial dielectric materials has been developed using a lumped constant resonator probe. The probe consists of a microwave oscillator module equipped with a thin conducting needle and an outer conductor ring, which detects the dielectric constant of the sample just beneath the needle as a frequency shift of the resonator. The quantitative analysis of the dielectric constant for the bulk and the thin-film samples was carried out based on the measurement of gap-length dependence of the frequency shift. The analysis method was successfully applied to the characterization of composition-spread BaxSr1-xTiO3 thin film sample. The evaluation of far-field contribution to the frequency shift was found to be crucial for the accurate determination of dielectric constant especially in the characterization of combinatorial thin films.

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