• Journal of the Semiconductor & Display Technology
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• v.8 no.2
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• pp.11-14
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• 2009

The $Sr_{0.7}Bi_{2.3}Nb_2O_9$(SBN) thin films are deposited on Pt-coated electrode(Pt/Ti/$SiO_2$/Si) using RF sputtering method at various $Ar/O_2$ ratio. We investigated the effect of deposition condition(specially $Ar/O_2$ ratio) on the structural properties of SBN thin film. As $Ar/O_2$ ratio was increased, the peaks in the XRD pattern became more sharp. Also, the peaks(008)(115)(220) in 80/20 of $Ar/O_2$ ratio were suddenly appeared. The optimum of the rougness showed about 4.33 nm in 70/30 of $Ar/O_2$ ratio. The crystallinity of SBN thin films were increased with the increase of $Ar/O_2$ ratio. Also, Deposition rate of SBN thin films was about 4.17 nm/min in 70/30 of $Ar/O_2$ ratio. The capacitance of SBN thin films were increased with the increase of $Ar/O_2$ ratio.

• Journal of the Microelectronics and Packaging Society
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• v.12 no.4 s.37
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• pp.339-343
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• 2005

Pt-$SrBi_2Nb_2O_9(SBN)-Pt-Y_2O_3-Si$ gate field effect transistors (MFMISFETs) have been fabricated and the SBN thin films are rapid thermal annealed in oxygen plasma. The grain size of the SBN becomes 4 times much larger than that of furnace annealed SBN films even at the same annealing temperature of $700^{\circ}C$, remnant polarization value of Pt-SBN-Pt is improved by 2 times. Using the rapid grain growth of SBN for the MFM-ISFET, memory window and programming characteristics of on/off states are fairly well improved.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers Conference
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• 2009.06a
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• pp.186-187
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• 2009

The $Sr_{0.7}Bi_{2.3}Nb_2O_9$(SBN) thin films are deposited on Pt-coated electrode(Pt/Ti/$SiO_2$/Si) using RF sputtering method at various deposition conditions. Thickness of SBN thin films was about 250[nm] in 70/30 of $Ar/O_2$ ratio. The thickness and deposition rate of SBN thin films were increased with increase of RF power. The capacitance of SBN thin films were increased with the increase of deposition temperature.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers Conference
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• 2006.05a
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• pp.133-135
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• 2006

SBN60 and SBN60/30 thin films were deposited by ion beam sputtering technique. Using the ceramic target of the same composition and Pt(100)/$TiO_2$/$SiO_2$/Si or Pt(111)/Ti/$SiO_2$/Si substrate, crystallization and orientation behavior as well as electric properties of the films were examined, Thickness was controlled to $3000{\AA}$ and the films were heat-treated at $650^{\circ}C{\sim}800^{\circ}C$. The orientation and crystallization behavior were observed which showed the dependence on processing condition($O_2$/Ar ratio, substrate temp, annealing temp...).

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers Conference
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• 2003.11a
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• pp.271-274
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• 2003

[ $Sr_xBa_{1-x}Nb_2O_6$ ] (SBN, $0.25{\leq}x{\leq}0.75$) ceramic is a ferroelectric material with tetragonal tungsten bronze (TTB) type structure, which has a high pyroelectric coefficient and a nonlinear electro-optic coefficient value. In spite of its advantages, SBN has not been investigated well compared to other ferroelectric materials with perovskite structure. In this study, SBN thin film was manufactured by ion beam sputtering technique using the prepared SBN target in $Ar/O_2$ atmosphere. SBN30 thin films of different thickness were pre-deposited as a seed layer on $Pt(100)/TiO_2/SiO_2/Si$ substrate followed by SBN60 deposition up to $4500\;{\AA}$ in thickness. As-deposited SBN60/SBN30 layer was heat-treated at different temperatures of 650, 700, 750, and $800\;^{\circ}C$ in air, respectively, The crystallinity and orientation behavior as well as electric properties of SBN60/SBN30 multi-layer were examined. The deposited layer was uniform and the orientation was shown primarily along (001) plane from XRD pattern. There was difference in the crystal structure with heat-treatment temperature, and the electric properties depended on the heating temperature and the seed-layer thickness. In electric properties of Pt/SBN60/SBN30/Pt thin film capacitor prepared, the remnant polarization (2Pr) value was $15\;{\mu}C/cm^2$, the coercive field (Ec) 65 kV/cm, and the dielectric constant 1492, respectively.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers Conference
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• 2010.03b
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• pp.6-6
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• 2010

The $Sr_{0.7}Bi_{2.3}Nb_2O_9$(SBN) thin films are deposited on Pt-coated electrode (Pt/Ti/$SiO_2$/Si) using RF sputtering method at various deposition temperature. The crystallinity of SBN thin films were increased with increase of deposition temperature in the temperature range of 100~400[$^{\circ}C$]. The surface roughness of deposition temperature($300^{\circ}C$) showed about 4.33[nm]. The grain and crystallinity of SBN thin films were increased with the increase of annealing temperature.

• Korean Journal of Materials Research
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• v.12 no.12
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• pp.962-966
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• 2002

The $SrBi_2$$Nb_2$$O_{9}$ (SBN) thin films were deposited with $SrNb_2$$O_{6}$ / (SNO) and $Bi_2$$O_3$ targets by co-sputtering method. For the growth of SBN thin films, we adopted the various power ratios of two targets; the power ratios of the SNO target to $Bi_2$$O_3$ target were 100 W : 20 W, 100 W : 25 W, and 100 W : 30 W during sputtering the SBN films. We found that the electrical properties of SBN films were greatly dependent on Bi content in films. The $Bi_2$Pt and $Bi_2$$O_3$ phase as second phases occurred at the films with excess Bi content greater than 2.4, resulting in poor ferroelectric properties. The best growth condition of the SBN films was obtained at the power ratio of 100 W : 25 W for the two targets. At this condition, the crystallinity and electrical properties of the films were improved at even low annealing temperature as $700^{\circ}C$ for 1h in oxygen ambient and the Sr, Bi and Nb component in the SBN films were about 0.9, 2.4, and 1.8 respectively. From the P-E and I-V curves for the specimen, the remnant polarization value ($2P_{r}$) of the SBN films was obtained about 6 $\mu$C/c $m^2$ at 250 kV/cm and the leakage current density of this thin film was $2.45$\times$10^{-7}$ $A/cm^2$ at an applied voltage of 3 V.V.

• Korean Journal of Materials Research
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• v.12 no.6
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• pp.464-469
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• 2002

$SrBi_2Nb_2O_9(SBN)$ thin films were grown on Pt/Ti/Si and p-type Si(100) substrates by rf-magnetron co-sputtering method using two ceramic targets, $SrNb_2O_6\; and \;Bi_2O_3$. The structural and electrical characteristics have been investigated to confirm the possibility of the SBN thin films for the applications to destructive and nondestructive read out ferroelectric random access memory(FRAM). For the optimum growth condition X-ray diffraction patterns showed that SBN films had well crystallized Bi-layered perovskite structure after $700^{\circ}C$ heat-treatment in furnace. From this specimen we got remnant polarization $(2P_r)$ of about 6 uC/$\textrm{cm}^2$ and coercive voltage $(V_c)$ of about 1.5 V at an applied voltage of 5 V. The leakage current density was $7.6{\times}10^{-7}$/A/$\textrm{cm}^2$ at an applied voltage of 5V. And for the NDRO-FRAM application, properties of SBN films on Si substrate has been investigated. From transmission electron microscopy (TEM) analysis, we found the furnace treated sample had a native oxide about 2 times thicker than the RTA treated sample and this thick native oxide layer had a bad effect on C-V characteristics of SBN/Si thin film. After $650^{\circ}C$ RTA process, we got the improved memory window of 1.3 V at an applied voltage of 5 V.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2009.07a
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• pp.1248_1249
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• 2009

The $Sr_{0.7}Bi_{2.3}Nb_2O_9$(SBN) thin films are deposited on Pt-coated electrode(Pt/Ti/$SiO_2$/Si) using RF sputtering method with RF power and Ar/$O_2$ ratio. The size of grain of SBN thin films were increased with the increase of Ar/$O_2$ ratio and RF power respectively. Also, the crystallinity of SBN thin films were increased remarkably at RF power and Ar/$O_2$ ratio were 80[W] and 80/20, respectively.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers Conference
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• 2002.07b
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• pp.1144-1147
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• 2002

Ferroelectric $Sr_xBa_{1-x}Nb_2O_6(0.25{\leq}x{\leq}0.75)$ thin films were prepared by the Ion Beam Sputtering method. Deposit onto Pt/Ti/$SiO_2$/Si(100) substrates. The deposited thin films were heat-treated for crystallization. Microstructure and crystallization behavior were examined using FE-SEM, XRD. Ferroelectric hysteresis were measured. The measured remanent polarization and coercive field values were $38{\mu}C/cm^2$ and 120kV/cm, respectively.