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An Effective Way to Suppress the Pyrochlore Phase Formation in SBT Thin Films

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 February 2011

Se-Yeon Jung ,
Woo-Chul Kwak ,
Seung-Joon Hwang  and
Yun-Mo Sung
Se-Yeon Jung
Affiliation:
Department of Materials Science & Engineering, Daejin University Pochun-si, Kyunggi-do 487–711, Korea (South)
Woo-Chul Kwak
Affiliation:
Department of Materials Science & Engineering, Daejin University Pochun-si, Kyunggi-do 487–711, Korea (South)
Seung-Joon Hwang
Affiliation:
Department of Materials Science & Engineering, Daejin University Pochun-si, Kyunggi-do 487–711, Korea (South)
Yun-Mo Sung
Affiliation:
Department of Materials Science & Engineering, Daejin University Pochun-si, Kyunggi-do 487–711, Korea (South)
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Abstract

Sr0.7Bi2.4Ta2O9 (SBT) thin films were deposited on Pt/Ti/SiO2/Si substrates with and without a seed layer of ∼40 nm thickness using sol-gel and spin coating methods. The influence of seed layer on the phase formation characteristics of SBT thin films was investigated using x-ray diffraction (XRD) and scanning electron microscopy (SEM) analyses. Formation of pyrochlore as well as Aurivillius phase was observed in both the unseeded and seeded SBT films heated at 740°C. However, it was revealed that Aurivillius phase formation was enhanced in seeded SBT thin films and pyrochlore phase formation was highly suppressed. In this study, two possible mechanisms for the suppression of pyrochlore phase formation were proposed from the perspectives of activation energy difference for Aurivillius and pyrochlore phase formation and Bi-ion diffusion to pyrochlore phase.

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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 784: Symposium C – Ferroelectric Thin Films XII , 2003 , C11.33
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 2004

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