학술논문

Characteristics of BaTiO3 thin films on Si deposited by rf magnetron sputtering.
Document Type
Article
Source
Philosophical Magazine B. Jan1998, Vol. 77 Issue 1, p163-175. 13p.
Subject
*THIN films
*SILICON
*MAGNETRONS
*SPUTTERING (Physics)
Language
ISSN
1364-2812
Abstract
Thin films of BaTiO3 were deposited on single-crystal Si using rf magentron sputtering. Different microstructures resulted from varying the substrate temperature during sputtering or from post-annealing after film deposition. High trap and surface state densities at the interface between BaTiO3 and Si were found for the films deposited at room temperature even though such films showed a relatively low leakage current and a high breakdown voltage. These surface states or traps, nevertheless, could be partially annealed out of the film at a temperature around 450oC. High deposition temperatures above 600oC introduced unrecoverable surface states at the interface. BaTiO3 thin films that were deposited at a substrate temperature in the range 450-500oC gave the best performance in terms of their electrical and interface properties. BaTiO3 thin-film capacitors with a configuration of Au/BaTiO3/p-Si/Al, fabricated with optimized BaTiO3 thin-film deposition conditions, showed a value of the dielectric constant near 30, a leakage-current density as low as 10-7 A cm-2 at a field intensity of 2x105 V cm-1, a breakdown voltage above 106 V cm-1 and an interface state density of around (4-6) 1011 eV-1 cm-2. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]