Abstract
A PbTiO3/Ba0.85Sr0.15TiO3/PbTiO 3 (PT/BST15/PT) sandwich thin film has been prepared on Pt/Ti/SiO2/Si substrates by an improved sol-gel technique. It is found that such films under rapid thermal annealing at 700°C crystalline more favorably with the addition of a PbTiO3 layer. They possess a pure, perovskite-phase structure with a random orientation. The polarization-electric field (P-E) hysteresis loop and current-voltage (I-V) characteristics curves reveal that a PT/BST15/PT film exhibits good ferroelectricity at room temperature. However, no sharp peak, only a weak maximum, is observed in the curves of the dielectric constant versus temperature. The dielectric constant, loss tangent, leakage current density at 20 kV/cm, remnant polarization, and coercive field of the PT/BST15/PT film are 438, 0.025, 1.3 × 10-6 Acm-2, 2.46 μCcm-2, and 41 kVcm-1, respectively, at 25°C and 10 kHz. The PT/BST15/PT film is a candidate material for high sensitivity elements for uncooled, infrared, focal plane arrays (UFPAs) to be used at near ambient temperature.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 1085-1089 |
| Number of pages | 5 |
| Journal | Journal of Electronic Materials |
| Volume | 32 |
| Issue number | 10 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - Oct 2003 |
| Externally published | Yes |
Keywords
- Dielectric properties
- Ferroelectric properties
- Sol-gel
- X-ray diffraction