BARIUM TITANATE FILMS FOR ELECTRONIC APPLICATIONS: STRUCTURAL AND DIELECTRIC PROPERTIES

S. Riaz, S. Shamaila, B. Khan and S. Naseem ()
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S. Riaz: Centre for Solid State Physics, Punjab University, Lahore 54590, Pakistan;
S. Shamaila: State Key Laboratory of Magnetism, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100080, China
B. Khan: Department of Chemistry, LCW University, Lahore, Pakistan
S. Naseem: Centre for Solid State Physics, Punjab University, Lahore 54590, Pakistan

Surface Review and Letters (SRL), 2008, vol. 15, issue 03, 237-244

Abstract: Synthesis of the precursors, using research grade materials and locally available facilities, is optimized in order to obtain a suitable sol forBaTiO3. The optimally synthesizedBaTiO3sol is then spun ontoCusubstrates to obtain films of thickness ~0.5 μm. The depositedBaTiO3films are heated up to a temperature of 300°C. Surface and structural changes, with heating, are observed by optical microscope, scanning electron microscope, atomic force microscope, and X-ray diffraction. The surface cracked in some cases but is generally uniform, as seen with SEM and AFM, in case of optimized conditions. The SEM images reveal large crystallites, which are correlated to the XRD observation of tetragonal perovskite structure of these sol–gel films. The AFM scan, however, shows an rms roughness of 35.6 nm for an area of 3 μm × 3 μm. Tetragonal perovskiteBaTiO3is obtained at a temperature of as low as 300°C. The dielectric constant and loss angle, in the 30 Hz–3 MHz range, are calculated at room temperature and up to 200°C. At high frequencies the dielectric constant (~290) and loss angle(~2 × 10-6)values indicate the usefulness of such films in electronic applications. The leakage current is also measured at room temperature and a conductivity of2.0 × 10-15S/cmis obtained.

Keywords: Barium titanate; sol-gel; dielectric properties; X-ray diffraction; tetragonal (perovskite) (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008
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