Integration of biaxally aligned conducting oxides with silicon using ion-beam assisted deposited MgO templates

Conference · Mon Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 2001

OSTI ID:975300

Park, B H ^[1]; Groves, J R ^[2]; DePaula, R F ^[3]; Jia, Quanxi; Arendt, P N ^[4]; Emmert, L A ^[5]

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1. Bae Ho
2. James R.
3. Raymond Felix
4. Paul N.
5. Luke A.

Two conducting oxides, La{sub 0.5}Sr{sub 0.5}CoO{sub 3}(LSCO) and SrRuO{sub 3}, were deposited by pulsed laser ablation onto silicon substrates coated with biaxially textured MgO on an amorphous silicon nitride isolation layer. Comparison is made between templates using just 10 nm of ion-beam assisted deposited (IBAD) MgO and substrates with an additional 100 nm of homoepitaxial MgO. Both of these conducting oxide layers exhibited in-plane and out-of-plane texture, on the order of that obtained by the underlying MgO. The SrRuO{sub 3} was c-axis oriented on both substrates, but exhibited a slightly sharper out-of-plane texture when the homoepitaxial MgO layer was included. On the other hand, the LSCO showed only (100) orientation when deposited directly on the IBAD-MgO templates, whereas a significant (110) peak was observed for films on the homoepitaxial MgO. A simple calculation of the distribution of grain boundary angles, assuming a normal distribution of grains, is also presented.

• Research Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory
• Sponsoring Organization: DOE
• OSTI ID: 975300
• Report Number(s): LA-UR-01-2160
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

36 MATERIALS SCIENCE
COBALT OXIDES
ENERGY BEAM DEPOSITION
LANTHANUM OXIDES
MAGNESIUM OXIDES
ORIENTATION
RUTHENIUM OXIDES
SILICON
STRONTIUM OXIDES
SUBSTRATES
TEXTURE