O2Gas Pressure Effects on Surface Morphology in Ferroelectric Bi4Ti3O12Thin Films Fabricated by Spin-Coating Pyrolysis

Autor: Kakimi, Atsushi, Soichiro Okamura, Soichiro Okamura, Takeyo Tsukamoto, Takeyo Tsukamoto
Zdroj: Japanese Journal of Applied Physics; December 1994, Vol. 33 Issue: 12 pL1707-L1707, 1p
Abstrakt: Fabrication of ferroelectric Bi4Ti3O12thin films was carried out by spin-coating pyrolysis of Bi and Ti naphthenates and successive heat treatments in O2gas. Heat treatments in O2gas were effective for fabrication of ferroelectric Bi4Ti3O12thin films with c-axis orientation. It was confirmed that the film surface morphology strongly depends on the O2gas pressure. Smooth platelike grains of the size greater than 10×10 µm2formed extensively in thin films upon heat treatment at the O2gas pressure of 4.0×105Pa. The film thickness was 500 nm. The thin film was a single phase of Bi4Ti3O12completely oriented along the c-axis with good ferroelectric properties at room temperature: coercive field of 15 kV/cm, remanent polarization of 1.9 µC/cm2, dielectric constant of 43 and loss of 0.02.
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