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Structure - Property Relationships of Thin Films of Epitaxial Ferroelectric Bismuth-Layered Perovskites with Even and Odd Aurivillius' Parameters

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 February 2011

A. Pignolet ,
C. Harnagea ,
A. R. James ,
S. Senz ,
N. D. Zakharov  and
D. Hesse
A. Pignolet
Affiliation:
Max-Planck-Institut für Mikrostrukturphysik, Weinberg 2, D-06120 Halle/Saale, Germany
C. Harnagea
Affiliation:
Max-Planck-Institut für Mikrostrukturphysik, Weinberg 2, D-06120 Halle/Saale, Germany
A. R. James
Affiliation:
Max-Planck-Institut für Mikrostrukturphysik, Weinberg 2, D-06120 Halle/Saale, Germany
S. Senz
Affiliation:
Max-Planck-Institut für Mikrostrukturphysik, Weinberg 2, D-06120 Halle/Saale, Germany
N. D. Zakharov
Affiliation:
Max-Planck-Institut für Mikrostrukturphysik, Weinberg 2, D-06120 Halle/Saale, Germany
D. Hesse
Affiliation:
Max-Planck-Institut für Mikrostrukturphysik, Weinberg 2, D-06120 Halle/Saale, Germany
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Abstract

Thin films of bismuth-layered perovskites with the generic formula (Bi2O2)2+(An- 1BnO3n+1)2- with an even Aurivillius' parameter n like SrBi2Ta2O9 (n = 2) and BaBi4Ti4O15 (n= 4) and with an odd Aurivillius' parameter like Bi4Ti3O12 (n= 3) and Ba2Bi4Ti5O18 (n=5) have been grown by pulsed laser deposition on epitaxial conducting LaNiO3 electrodes on single crystalline (100) SrTiO3 or on top of epitaxial buffer layers on (100) silicon. The films are shown to grow epitaxially, however, they do not have a single crystallographic orientation but several preferred orientations. The films consist of both c-axis-oriented regions and mixed (110)-, (100)- and (001)-oriented regions. The regions with mixed orientation feature rectangular as well as equiaxed crystalline grains embedded in a c-oriented matrix, protruding out of its smooth surface. Macroscopic as well as microscopic measurements of the ferroelectric properties of regions with pure c-orientation and of regions with mixed orientations showed a clear relationship between their ferroelectric properties and their morphology and crystallographic orientation. In the regions with mixed orientation, the films exhibited saturated ferroelectric hysteresis loops with well-defined remanent polarization Pr and coercive field Ec. The regions having c-axis orientation with a smooth surface morphology, in contrast, exhibited a linear P-E curve with no hysteretic behavior for SrBi2Ta2O9 and BaBi4Ti4O15, and weak ferroelectric behavior for Bi4Ti3O12. These results might have a technological impact due to the relevance of bismuth-layered ferroelectric oxides for the fabrication of non-volatile FeRAM memories.

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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 596: Symposium Y – Ferroelectric Thin Films VIII , 1999 , 415
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 2000

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