Structural studies of epitaxial BaTiO3 thin film on silicon

Keywords: Ferroelectricity Thin films Silicon Epitaxy Radio-frequency magnetron sputtering Infrared spectroscopy Phonon A B S T R A C T BaTiO 3 thin films (60 nm-thick) grown on SrTiO 3 /Si templates have been characterized for their structural and electrical properties. The epitaxy of the BaTiO 3 film on silicon was confirmed by X-ray diffraction with good crystallinity. The temperature-dependent structural properties were checked by infrared spectroscopy in absorption mode. The films were found to remain in a single ferroelectric phase over a temperature range from 5 to 385 K. Low-temperature orthorhombic-rhombohedral phase transitions characteristic of bulk BaTiO 3 are absent in the films due to the clamping effect from the Si substrate.