• 한국세라믹학회지
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• 제33권9호
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• pp.969-976
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• 1996

RuO2 thin films were deposited on SiO2(1000 $\AA$)/Si by hot-wall Metal Organic Chemical Vapor Depositon. The crystallinity of RuO2 thin films increased with increasing deposition temperature and the preferred orienta-tion of RuO2 films converted (200) plane to (101) plane with increasing film thicknesses. Such a change in preferred orientation was influenced on the crystallographic structure and the residual stress of RuO2 thin films. The resistivity of the 2700$\AA$-thick RuO2 thin films deposted at 30$0^{\circ}C$ was 52.7$\mu$$\Omega$-cm and they could be applicable to bottom electrodes of high dielectric materials. However the resistivity of RuO2 thin films increased with decreasing film thicknesses. The grain size and the resistivity of RuO2 thin films were densified with increasing the annealing temperature and showed the decrease of resistivity.

• 한국세라믹학회지
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• 제34권3호
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• pp.241-248
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• 1997

RuO2 박막은 SiO2(1000$\AA$)Si와 MgO(100) 단결정 위에 낮은 증착온도에서 hot-wall MOCVD법으로 증착시켰다. 그리고 박막의 특성에 미치는 공정변수의 영향을 고찰하였다. 25$0^{\circ}C$의 비교적 낮은 온도에서부터 RuO2의 단일상을 얻었으며 SiO2(1000$\AA$)Si위에 증착된 RuO2박막은 무질서한 배향을 보이는 반면 MgO(100)단결정 위에 증착시킨 RuO2박막의 경우에는 (hk0) 배향성을 보이는 것을 관찰하였다. 증착온도가 증가함에 따라 RuO2박막의 결정성은 증가하였고 전기적 비저항은 감소하였다. O2유량이 감소함에 따라 RuO2박막의 비저항은 감소하였으며, 증착온도 35$0^{\circ}C$, O2 유량 50sccm에서 증착된 두께 2600$\AA$-RuO2박막의 비저항은 52.7$\mu$$\Omega$-cm이었으며 이는 고 유전물질의 하부전극으로 이용하기에 적합하다.

• 한국전기전자재료학회논문지
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• 제14권4호
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• pp.281-288
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• 2001

PZT thin films (3500$\AA$) have been prepard on the Ru/Ru $O_2$ and Ru $O_2$ bottom electrodes with a RF magnetron sputtering system using P $b_{1.05}$(Z $r_{0.52}$, $Ti_{0.48}$) $O_3$ ceramic target. Ru/Ru $O_2$ bottom electrode was fabricated by in-situ processing controlled the $O_2$ partial pressure. The PZT thin films deposited on the Ru/Ru $O_2$ bottom electrode were preferred oriented (101) plane. The PZT thin films deposited on the Ru/Ru $O_2$ bottom electrodes showed better electrical properties than those with Ru $O_2$ bottom electrodes because Ru $O_2$ prevented oxygen vacancies and impurities from existing withing the interface and substrate.e.

• 한국전기전자재료학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국전기전자재료학회 2001년도 추계학술대회 논문집 Vol.14 No.1
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• pp.394-397
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• 2001

In this paper, in-situ deposited $Ru/RuO_2$ bottom electrodes have been investigated as new bottom electrodes for PZT thin film capacitor application. As a comparison, structural and electrical properties of PZT thin films on Pt/Ti and $RuO_2$ bottom electrodes are also investigated. The use of $Ru/RuO_2$ hybrid electrodes showed better electrical properties in compression with $RuO_2$ bottom electrode. With increasing Ru electrode thickness, the PZT thin films showed preferred orientation along the (110) direction and and leakage current of PZT thin films were improved. The PZT thin films on Ru (100nm)/$RuO_2$ electrodes exhibited excellent ferroelectric properties such as remant polarization and coercive field of $7.2C/cm^2$ and 46.35 kV/cm, respectively.

• 한국전기전자재료학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국전기전자재료학회 2001년도 추계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.394-397
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• 2001

In this paper, in-situ deposited Ru/RuO$_2$ bottom electrodes have been investigated as new bottom electrodes for PZT thin film capacitor application. As a comparison, structural and electrical properties of PZT thin films on Pt/Ti and RuO$_2$ bottom electrodes are also investigated. The use of Ru/RuO$_2$ hybrid electrodes showed better electrical properties in compression with RuO$_2$ bottom electrode. With increasing Ru electrode thickness, the PZT thin films showed preferred orientation along the (110) direction and leakage current of PZT thin films were improved. The PZT thin films on Ru (100nm)/RuO$_2$ electrodes exhibited excellent ferroelectric properties such as remant polarization and coercive field of 7.2 C/$\textrm{cm}^2$ and 46.35 kV/cm, respectively.

• Journal of Magnetics
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• 제13권2호
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• pp.57-60
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• 2008

This study examined the effect of various types of epitaxial strain on the magnetic properties of $SrRuO_3$ thin films. Epitaxial $SrTiO_3$ (001), $SrTiO_3$ (110), and $SrTiO_3$ (111) substrates were used to apply different crystal symmetries to the grown films. The films were grown using pulsed laser deposition. The X-ray diffraction patterns of the films grown under optimum conditions showed very clear peaks for the $SrRuO_3$ film and $SrTiO_3$ substrates. The saturated magnetic moment at 5 K after 7 Tesla field cooling was $1.2-1.4\;{\mu}_B$/Ru. The magnetic easy axis for all three types of films was along the surface normal. The magnetic transition temperature for the $SrRuO_3$ film with lower symmetry was slightly larger than the $SrRuO_3$ film with higher symmetry.

• 한국전기전자재료학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국전기전자재료학회 2002년도 춘계학술대회 논문집 센서 박막재료 반도체재료 기술교육
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• pp.74-77
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• 2002

Ferroelectric Random Access Memory(FRAM) and MEMS applications require noble metal or refractory metal oxide electrodes. In this study, Ru thin films were etched using $O_2$+10% $CF_4$ plasma in an inductively coupled plasma(ICP) etching system. The etch rate of Ru thin films was examined as function of rf power, DC bias applied to the substrate. The enhanced etch rate can be obtained not only with increasing rf power and DC bias voltage, but also with small addition $CF_4$ gas. The selectivity of $SiO_2$ over Ru are 1.3. Radical densities of oxygen and fluorine in $CF_4/O_2$ plasma have been investigated by optical emission spectroscopy(OES). The etching profiles of Ru films with an photoresist pattern were measured by a field emission scanning electron microscope (FE-SEM). The additive gas increases the concentration of oxygen radicals, therefore increases the etch rate of the Ru thin films and enhances the etch slope. In $O_2$+10% $CF_4$ plasma, the etch rate of Ru thin films increases up to 10% $CF_4$ but decreases with increasing $CF_4$ mixing ratio.

• 한국전기전자재료학회논문지
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• 제15권10호
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• pp.865-869
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• 2002

The structural and electrical properties of PZT (lead zirconate titante) thin films grown on Pt (platinum) and Ru/Ru $O_2$(ruthenium/ruthenium oxide) electrodes were investigated. Thin films of PZT were deposited on a variety of electrodes using the rf-magnetron sputtering process. PZT films exhibited polycrystalline structure with strong PZT (100) plane and weak (211) plane for an optimizied Pt electrode and (100), (101), (111), (200), (210), (211) planes for Ru/Ru $O_2$. Switching polarization versus fatigue characteristic of Pt/Ti electrodes showed 20% degradation up to 1 $\times$ 10$_{9}$ cycles. No significant fatigue was observed in the films on Ru/Ru $O_2$ electrodes up to Ix109 test cycles. The results show that the new Ru/Ru $O_2$ bottom electrodes are expected to reduce the degradation of ferroelectric fatigue.

• 전기학회논문지P
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• 제63권1호
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• pp.46-49
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• 2014

$Pb(Zr_{0.52}Ti_{0.48})O_3(PZT)$ thin films deposited on $Ru/RuO_2$ bottom electrode that grown for in-situ progress used rf magnetron sputtering method. We investigated the dependence of the crystalline and electrical properties in the way of capacitors PZT thin films. Our results show that all PZT films indicated polycrystalline perovskite structure with preferred orientation (110) and no pyrochlore phase is observed. The electric properties of the Ru improved with increasing Ru thin films thickness. A well-fabricated Ru/PZT/Ru (100 nm) /$RuO_2$ capacitor showed a leakage current density in the order of $2.03{\times}10^{-7}$ $A/cm^2$ as a 50 kV/cm, a remnant polarization (Pr) of 9.22 ${\mu}C/cm^2$, and a coercive field (-EC) of -32.22 kV/cm. The results show that $Ru/Ru/RuO_2$ bottom electrodes are expected to reduce the degradation ferroelectric fatigue and excellent ferroelectric properties.

• The Korean Journal of Ceramics
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• 제3권4호
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• pp.263-268
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• 1997

RuO$_3$ thin films were deposited on Si(100) substrate at low temperatures by hot-wall metalorganic chemical vapor deposition. Bis(cyclopentadienyl) ruthenium, Ru$(C_5H_5)_2$, was used as the precursor RuO$_2$single phase was obtained at a low deposition temperature of 25$0^{\circ}C$ and the crystallinity of RuO$_2$thin films improved with increasing deposition temperature. RuO$_2$thin films grow perpendicularly to the substrate and show the columnar structure. The grain size of RuO$_2$films drastically increases with increasing the deposition temperature. The resistivity of the 180 nm-thick RuO$_2$thin films deposited at 27$0^{\circ}C$ was 136 $\mu$$\Omega$-cm and increased with decreasing film thickness. SrBi$_2Ta_2O_4$ thin films deposited by rf magnetron sputtering on the RuO$_2$bottom electrodes showed a fatigue-free characteristics up to ~10$^10$ cycles under 5 V bipolar square pulses and the remanent polarization, 2 P$_r$ and the coercive field, 2 E, were 5.2$\mu$C/$\textrm{cm}^2$ and 76.0 kV/cm, respectively, for an applied voltage of 5 V The leakage current density was about 7.0$\times$10$^{-6}$ A/$\textrm{cm}^2$ at 150 kV/cm.