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A Transmission Electron Microscopy Study of Dislocation Substructures in PLD-grown Epitaxial Films of (Ba,Sr)TiO3 on (001) LaAlO3

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 February 2011

I. B. Misirlioglu ,
A. L. Vasiliev ,
M. Aindow ,
R. Ramesh  and
S. P. Alpay
I. B. Misirlioglu
Affiliation:
Department of Metallurgy and Materials Engineering and Institute of Materials Science, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269
A. L. Vasiliev
Affiliation:
Department of Metallurgy and Materials Engineering and Institute of Materials Science, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269
M. Aindow
Affiliation:
Department of Metallurgy and Materials Engineering and Institute of Materials Science, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269
R. Ramesh
Affiliation:
Department of Materials and Nuclear Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park MD 20742
S. P. Alpay
Affiliation:
Department of Metallurgy and Materials Engineering and Institute of Materials Science, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269
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Abstract

Epitaxial Ba0.6Sr0.4TiO3 films were grown onto (001) LaAlO3 by pulsed-laser deposition, and the dislocation structures of the films were investigated using transmission electron microscopy. Misfit dislocations with a periodicity of about 7 nm and Burgers vectors b = a<100> were observed at the interface. High densities of threading dislocations was present in the films with Burgers vector b = a<100>. The observations reveal that threading dislocations are not generated as the result of half-loop climb from the deposit surface as proposed previously, but are instead formed when misfit dislocations are forced away from the interface during island coalescence.

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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 784: Symposium C – Ferroelectric Thin Films XII , 2003 , C2.7
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 2004

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