Enhanced ferroelectric and dielectric properties of (111)-oriented highly cation-ordered PbSc{sub 0.5}Ta{sub 0.5}O{sub 3} thin films
- Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics, Weinberg 2, D-06120 Halle (Saale) (Germany)
Cation-ordered (111)-oriented epitaxial PbSc{sub 0.5}Ta{sub 0.5}O{sub 3} (PST) thin films were deposited by pulsed laser deposition on SrRuO{sub 3}-electroded SrTiO{sub 3} (111) substrates at three different temperatures of 525 °C, 550 °C, and 575 °C. All the films were well crystalline and (111)-oriented at all the three growth temperatures; however, the films deposited at the temperatures other than 550 °C exhibited the presence of a pyrochlore phase. X-ray diffraction analysis and transmission electron microscopy measurements revealed that the films were epitaxial and highly cation-ordered. In comparison to (001)-oriented PST films, (111)-oriented films on SrRuO{sub 3}/SrTiO{sub 3} (111) exhibited enhanced ferroelectric and dielectric properties with a broad size distribution of cation-ordered domains (5–100 nm). At a measurement temperature of 100 K, the remnant polarization of PST (111) films is almost √3 times larger than the remnant polarization observed for (001)-oriented PST films, which is attributed to the (111) orientation of the films, as the spontaneous polarization in PST lies close to the [111] direction. The observed dielectric constant and loss at 1 kHz were around 1145 and 0.11, respectively. The dielectric constant is thus almost three times higher than for previously reported (001)-oriented PST thin films, most probably due to the enhancement in cation-ordering.
- OSTI ID:
- 22266146
- Journal Information:
- Journal of Applied Physics, Vol. 114, Issue 22; Other Information: (c) 2013 AIP Publishing LLC; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 0021-8979
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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