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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 February 2011
Lead zirconate titanate (PZT) thin films have been grown by rf magnetron sputtering on Si substrates from a metallic target of nominal composition Pb1.1(Zr0.4 Ti0.6 in a reactive argon / oxygen gas mixture. During plasma deposition, in situ Optical Emission Spectroscopy (OES) measurements show clearly a correlation between the evolution of characteristic atomic emission line intensities (Zr - 386.4 nm, Ti - 399.9 nm, Pb - 405.8 nm and O - 777.2 nm) and the thin-film composition determined by a simultaneous use of Rutherford Backscattering Spectroscopy (RBS) and Nuclear Reaction Analysis (NRA).