Characterization and microstructure of highly preferred oriented lead barium titanate thin films on MgO (100) by sol-gel process

Wein Duo Yang*, Sossina M. Haile

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Abstract

Highly preferred oriented lead barium titanate (Pb1-x,Bax)TiO3 thin film, with particular emphasis on (Pb0.5,Ba0.5)TiO3, can be obtained by spin-coating on MgO (100) substrate by using the precursor sol, which was synthesized from acetylacetone chelating with titanium isopropoxide and ethylene glycol as a solvent, in the sol-gel process. Film thickness, pyrolysis temperature and heating rate were studied systemically to investigate their influences on the formation of preferred oriented thin films. The highly preferred (001)/(100) oriented thin film could be obtained by the pyrolysis of wet film at 500 °C and annealing at 600 °C at a slow heating rate of 5 °C/min. It is confirmed that the tetragonal perovskite structure of the titanate ceramic decreases with an increase of Ba content in (Pb1-x,Bax)TiO3. The (001)/(100) oriented films were synthesized from all compositions between x = 0.2 and x = 0.8, at a crystallization temperature of 600 °C. In particular, for the Ba content in the range of x = 0.5∼0.6, highly preferred (001)/(100) planes were observed.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)55-61
Number of pages7
JournalThin Solid Films
Volume510
Issue number1-2
DOIs
StatePublished - Jul 3 2006

Funding

One of the authors thanks the National Kaohsiung University of Applied Sciences, in Taiwan, ROC, for financial support of his work as a visiting scholar at Caltech, USA. In addition, this work has been funded by the United States Department of Defense MURI award administered by the Army Research Office. Additional support has been provided by the National Science Foundation, through Caltech Center for the Science and Engineering of Materials.

Keywords

  • Ceramics
  • Crystallization
  • Lead barium titanate
  • Preferred oriented
  • Sol-gel
  • Spin-coating
  • Thin films
  • X-ray diffraction

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
  • Surfaces and Interfaces
  • Surfaces, Coatings and Films
  • Metals and Alloys
  • Materials Chemistry

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