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Amongst ferroelectric substancesBaTiO3is perhaps the most widely investigated material becauseof its extremelyinteresting structurespecific proporties which are of great importance to device technologyl.Also, this materialbeing chemicallyand mechanically very stable it can be used in a variety of application environments. Most of the applications of this materialexploredtilltodate use its sinteredpolycrystallineceramic form suitablyprocessedand doped to generate the desiredferroelectricresponse.Recently, with the growingemphasisof modern technology on miniaturization, a need is felt for development of processes for obtaining good qualitythin films of such materials.Moreover, it is further desirable if such processes are dry-processingtype and are compatible with similar other processes. pulsed laser deposition is one such process which is receiving considerable attention recently, since its successfulapplicationto deposition of hot superconductor films2-5. In this communication, we have appliedthe pulsedlaser evaporationprocess to depositbarium titanate thin films on silicon.In additionto being an importantmaterialin its own right,BaTi has also been used as one of the barrierlayersfor depositionof superconductor films on Siliconb. Hence laserdevositionof BaTi on siliconcan be regarded as an importan< step towards development of an all-laser process for deposition of oxide superconductorfilms on silicon for realization of superconductorelectronics. BaTi pellet used as a target for laser vaporization was synthesizedby using sol-gel routey. One such pellet was mounted in a chamber pumped by a varian diffstack system capable of ‘renderingan ultimate vacuum of 5 x10-7 Torr.TheRuby laser beam was derived from J.K. laser (system 2000). capable of yieldinga maximum energyof 10 Joulesjpulse at a pulse repetition rate of 6 pulseslmin. The laser pulse duration was 30-ns. The target orientation was at 450 with respect to the direction of laser beam.The distance between
the target and the substratesurfacewas 3 cm. The substrateholder was mounted on a heater assembly capable of raising the substrate temperature to about 500°C. To control the oxygen partialpressurea precisionleak valve was used.The depositionswere carried out on (111) oriented single crystal silicon substrates, at a substratetemperatureof 45oOC by varying&e other depositionparameterssuch as energy density, oxygen partial pressure, substratebias etc. Typicaldepositionrate was found to be lo-15 AO/pulse depending on the depositionparameters. The depositedfilms were characterized by small angleX-ray diffraction (performed on Rigaku, Japan machine, Model no. Rotaflex RU For small angle 200 B ), using -radiation. XRD measurements Seeman-Bohlingeometry was usedg. The morphology of these films was studied using scanning electron microscope (Cambridge-Strioscan 150 machine). The dielectricpropertiesof the film were obtained using spectroscopic ellipsometer (SOPRA, France). The qualityof the laser evaporatedoxide films is known to dependupon the laser energy density as well as ambient oxygen partial pressure9, hence, in this experiment,these two parameterswere variedsystematically to obtain the desiredstoichiometryof the ferroelectric material.The small angle XRD patternof BaTi pellettakenat a glancingangle of lo is shown in fig.l(a).All the difxrasion lines match closely with those reported10 for polycrystalline barium titanate.Initially,the deposition was carried out at lower energy density of 6.0 J/cm2 and oxygen partial pressure of 5 x 10-b Torr. The corresponding XRD pattern is shown in fig.l(b).There is nz indication of the formation of BaTi chase. When the laser energydensitywas incrgasedto 10.0J/cm2 and oxygenpartialpressurewas kept constant,presenceof a small amount of BaTiO3 could be discerned from the XRD pattern [fig.l(c)]. Alongwith the required tetragonal BaTiO3phase however, differentstoichiometric phases were also seen. Though the structural
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evaporation technique via control of process parameters. Recently, in the studies on deposition of high T c Y-Ba-Cu-O superconducting thin films it has been reported that the overall quality of thin film can be drastically improved by application of a bias field between the target and the substrate11. It has been argued that control of excited and reactive ionic radicals present in the laser generated plume could be responsible for these effects. In order to examine the use of this effect for the case of BaTi03, depositions were performed at an energy density of 15.0 J/eraz and pressure of 10-6 Tort with and without applied electric field. The result for deposition without field is shown in fig.2(a). The 'd' values do not match with those reported for BaTiO 3. When an electric field of 330 V/cm was applied between the substrate (+ve) and the target (ground), (pressure was kept at 10 -6 Torr and the laser energy density at 15.0 J/cm2) good quality stoichiometric thin film of BaTiO 3 could be deposited [fig.2(b)]. It may be noted that in the field assisted case good film is obtained at much lower oxygen partial pressure than the case of deposition without field. It appears
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that the substrate bias promotes growth of BaTiO 3 phase by enhanced incorporation of the ionic Torm of oxygen. It is n o w important to comment on the morphology of the deposited films. The SEM micrographs for the film deposited at substrate t e m p e r a t u r e of 4 5 0 o c and o x y g e n p a r t i a l pressure of 10 -I Torr is shown in fig.3(a) while that for the film deposited at 450oc at an oxygen partial pressure of 5 x10 -6 Torr with a bias of IkV/cm is shown in fig.3(b). In both the cases the film shows granularity; though the film deposited with field assistance shows considerable grain compactionandgrain size uniformity. Clearly, the bombardment of f i l m s u r f a c e by f i e l d - e n e r g i z e d charged particles in laser g e n e r a t e d plume is responsible for this effect. Finally, it is interesting to bring out the dielectric properties of the film. The spectroscopic ellipsometry result on the film is s h o w n in fig.4. It is s e e n that the dielectric constant of the film in the visible region is nearly 2.3. This is lower than the dielectric constant of crystalline BaTiO 3 by 5 %. Such lowering can be attributed to the presence of free spaces in the film both in t e r m s of g r a i n b o u n d a r i e s and voids or vacancies. The latter type of inhomogenities can arise in rapidly synthesized materials such as in the present case and post annealing treatments are essential to eliminate them. It is also important to note that the imaginary
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index (K) which represents ~i@l@ctric 10ss is less than 0.05 over almost the entire range of spectral width studied. In conclusion, good quality stoichiometric films of BaTiO 3 on crystalline silicon can be obtained by controlling oxygen partial pressure, laser energy density and substrate bias during laser deposition process. AcknowledgmentThe authors gratefully acknowledge the financial support for this work
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by Department of Atomic Energy (DAE) and Department of Science and Technology (DST). Tne authors would like to thank Dr. Basu and Dr. Deshpande (SANI~IE) for their help in SEM work and S.V. Rajarshee (Pune University) for his assistance in spectroscopic ellipsometry. The authors are also grateful to Dr. S.K.Date (NCL) for fruitful discussions.
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