Document Type
Article
Original Publication Date
2009
Journal/Book/Conference Title
Applied Physics Letters
Volume
95
Issue
1
DOI of Original Publication
10.1063/1.3151961
Date of Submission
April 2015
Abstract
BaxSr1−xTiO3 is ideally suited as a tunable medium for radio frequency passive component. In this context we have studied the effect of biaxial strain on the dielectric and ferroelectricproperties of Ba0.5Sr0.5TiO3thin filmsgrown epitaxially on SrTiO3 (001) substrates. The lattice parameters of the films determined by high-resolution x-ray diffraction with the thickness varying from 160 to 1000 nm indicated large biaxial compressive strain which decreased from 2.54% to 1.14% with increasing film thickness. Temperature-dependent measurements of the dielectric constant in our strained Ba0.5Sr0.5TiO3thin films revealed a significant increase in the Curie temperature as the film thickness is below 500 nm. Enhanced ferroelectric behavior was observed for highly strained films with a remanent polarization of 15 μC/cm2 in the 160-nm-thick layer. However, the thick films(≥500 nm) exhibited weak temperature dependence of the dielectric constant without any pronounced peak corresponding to the Curie temperature, which may suggest inhomogeneous strain distribution in the thick films.
Rights
Xiao, B., Avrutin, V., Liu, H., et al. Effect of large strain on dielectric and ferroelectric properties of Ba0.5Sr0.5TiO3 thin films. Applied Physics Letters, 95, 012907 (2009). Copyright © 2009 AIP Publishing LLC.
Is Part Of
VCU Electrical and Computer Engineering Publications
Comments
Originally published at http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.3151961