• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers Conference
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• 2001.11b
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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.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers Conference
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• 2001.11a
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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.

• Proceedings of the Materials Research Society of Korea Conference
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• 2003.11a
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• pp.142-142
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• 2003

The effects of film thickness on the dipolar relaxation of ferroelectric PbTiO$_3$ films were investigated in the microwave-frequency range. The dielectric constants ($\varepsilon$) and the dielectric losses (tan $\delta$) were successfully measured up to 30 ㎓ using interdigital capacitors. The PbTiO$_3$ thin films were deposited on the quartz substrate at room temperature and postannealed in oxygen atmosphere. As the film thickness increased, its grain size and tetragonality were enhanced. And the dipolar relaxation behavior began to appear in the thin films with approximately 20 nm thickness, since ferroelectric domains could not be formed hi small grains. The observed relaxation frequency (above 10 ㎓) was higher than the previous values reported in bulk ceramics. It can be correlated with the extremely small domain size of the thinfilms as shown by TEM. And, the Rayleigh constant [1] from domain wall motions was alsoinvestigated by LCR meter at 100 KHz.

• Journal of the Korean Ceramic Society
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• v.31 no.10
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• pp.1115-1122
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• 1994

ZT/PZT/ZT multi-layered thin films were deposited on silicon substrate by co-sputtering method for FEMFET device application. Effects of Pb/(Zr+Ti) ratio, films thickness, annealing conditions and substrate temperature on the ferroelectric behavior of the multi-layered films were studied. The best memory device characteristics with leakage current of 2$\times$10-8 A/$\textrm{cm}^2$ and breakdown field of about 1 MV/cm could be obtained with ZT(250 $\AA$) / PZT(1000 $\AA$)/ZT(750 $\AA$) multi-layered thin film deposited at 35$0^{\circ}C$ and post-annealed at $700^{\circ}C$ for 120 sec by RTA(Rapid Thermal Annealing).

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers Conference
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• 2001.11b
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• pp.565-568
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• 2001

We have fabricated $Bi_{3.25}La_{0.75}Ti_{3}O_{12}(BLT)$ thin(200nm) films on the $Pt/Ti/SiO_{2}/Si$ substrates using a MOD(Metalorganic decomposition) method with annealing temperature from $550^{\circ}C$ to $750^{\circ}C$. The structural properties of the films examined by x-ray diffraction. The layered-perovskite phase obtained above $600^{\circ}C$. Scanning electron micrographs showed uniform surface composed of rodlike grains. The grain size increased with increasing annealing temperature. The BLT thin films showed little polarization fatigue test up to $3.5{\times}10^{9}$ bipolar cycling at a 5V and 100kHz.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers Conference
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• 2005.11a
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• pp.39-40
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• 2005

Ferroelectric Eu-substituted $Bi_4Ti_3O_{12}$ (BET) thin films with a thickness of 200 nm were deposited on Pt(111)/Ti/SiO$_2$/Si(100) substrate by means of the liquid delivery MOCVD system and annealed at several temperatures in an oxygen atmosphere. At annealing temperature above $600^{\circ}C$, the microstructure of layered perovskite phase was observed. The remanent polarization of these films increased with increase in annealing temperature. The remanent polarization values ($2P_r$) of the BET thin films annealed at $720^{\circ}C$ were $37.71{\mu}C/cm^2$ at an applied voltage of 5 V.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers Conference
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• 2001.11a
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• pp.565-568
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• 2001

We have fabricated $Bi_{3.25}$$La_{0.75}$ti$_3$O$_{12}$ (BLT) thin(200nm) films on the Pt/Ti/SiO$_2$/Si substrates using a MOD(Metalorganic decomposition) method with annealing temperature from 55$0^{\circ}C$ to 75$0^{\circ}C$. The structural properties of the films examined by x-ray diffraction. The layered-perovskite phase obtained above $600^{\circ}C$. Scanning electron micrographs showed uniform surface composed of rodlike grains. The grain size increased with increasing annealing temperature. The BLT thin films showed little polarization fatigue test up to 3.5x10$^{9}$ bipolar cycling at a 5V and 100kHz.kHz.

• JSTS:Journal of Semiconductor Technology and Science
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• v.3 no.3
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• pp.132-138
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• 2003

We investigated the polarization retention characteristics of ferroelectric capacitors with $Pb(Zr,Ti)O_3$ (PZT) thin films which were fabricated by different deposition methods. In thermally-accelerated retention tests, PZT films which were prepared by a chemical solution deposition (CSD) method showed rapid decay of retained polarization charges as the thickness of the films decreased down to 100 nm, while the films which were grown by metal organic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD) retained relatively large non-volatile charges at the corresponding thickness. We concluded that in the CSD-grown films, the thicker interfacial passive layer compared with the MOCVD-grown films had an unfavorable effect on retention behavior. We observed the existence of such interfacial layers by extrapolation of the total capacitance with thickness of the films and the capacitance of these layers was larger in MOCVD-grown films than in CSD-grown films. Due to incomplete compensation of surface polarization charges by the free charges in the metal electrodes, the interfacial field activated the space charges inside the interfacial layers and deposited them at the boundary between the ferroelectric layer and the interfacial layer. Such space charges built up an internal field inside the films, which interfered with domain wall motion, so that retention property at last became degraded. We observed less imprint which was a result of less internal field in MOCVD-grown films while large imprint was observed in CSD-grown films.

• Journal of the Korean Vacuum Society
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• v.18 no.2
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• pp.141-146
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• 2009

PLZT ferroelectric thin films were deposited on Pt/Ti/$SiO_2$/Si substrate with $TiO_2$ buffer layer in between by rf magnetron sputtering method. In order to investigate the effect of Ar/$O_2$ partial pressure ratio on the ferroelectric properties of PLZT thin films, PLZT thin films were deposited at various Ar/$O_2$ partial pressure ratio ; 27/1.5 seem, 23/5.5 seem, 21/7.5 seem and 19/9.5 seem. The crystallinities of PLZT thin films were analyzed by XRD. The surface morphology was observed using FE-SEM. The P-E hysteresis loops, the remanent polarization characteristics and the leakage current characteristics were obtained using a Precision LC. The crystallinity and elaborateness of PLZT thin films were decreased as increasing the oxygen partial pressure ratio. And preferred orientation of PLZT thin films changed from (110) plane to (111) plane. The oxygen partial pressure ratio affects the thin film surface morphology and the ferroelectric properties.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers Conference
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• 2002.11a
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• pp.309-312
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• 2002

Ferroelectric $Sr_{0.3}Ba_{0.7}Nb_{2}O_{6}$ (SBN30) thin films were deposited on Pt/Ti/$SiO_{2}$/Si(100) substrates by ion beam sputtering. During annealing treatment at $750^{\circ}C$, poling was attempted by applying dc voltage bias across polished surfaces. Phase relation, microstructure and crystallization behavior were examined using XRD and FE-SEM. Ferroelectric hysteresis characteristics were also determined where both remanent polarization and coercive values decreased with the increase of bias voltage. The measured remanent polarization and coercive field values at 5 V and 10 V bias were $36{\mu}C/cm^2$, $10{\mu}C/cm^2$ and 100kV /cm, 80kV /cm, respectively.