Abstract
A Bi$_4$Ti$_3$O$_{12}$ (BIT) thin film is prepared by sol-gel method using acetate precursors and evaluated whether it could be applied to NVFRAM. The drying and the annealing temperature are 40$0^{\circ}C$ and $650^{\circ}C$, respectively and they are determined from the DT-TG analysis. The BIT thin film deposited on Pt/Ta/SiO$_2$/Si substrate shows orthorhombic perovskite phase. The grain size and the surface roughness are about 100 nm and 70.2$\AA$, respectively. The dielectric constant and the loss tangent at 10 KHz are 176 and 0.038, respectively, and the leakage current density at 100㎸/cm is 4.71$mutextrm{A}$/$\textrm{cm}^2$. In the results of hysteresis loops measured at $\pm$250㎸/cm, the remanent polarization (Pr) and the coercive field (Ec) are 5.92$mutextrm{A}$/$\textrm{cm}^2$ and 86.3㎸/cm, respectively. After applying 10$^{9}$ square pulses of $\pm$5V, the remanent polarization of the BIT thin film decreases as much as about 33% from 5.92 $\mu$C/$\textrm{cm}^2$ of initial state to 3.95 $\mu$C/$\textrm{cm}^2$.
