• Journal of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers
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• v.13 no.12
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• pp.996-1002
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• 2000

Ferroelectric (Ba, Sr) TiO$_3$(BST) thin films have attracted much attention for use in new capacitor materials of dynamic random access memories (DRAMs). In order to apply BST to the DRAMs, the etching process for BST thin film with high etch rate and vertical profile must be developed. However, the former studies have the problem of low etch rate. In this study, in order to increase the etch rate, BST thin films were etched with a magnetically enhanced inductively coupled plasma(MEICP) that have much higher plasma density than RIE (reactive ion etching) and ICP (inductively coupled plasma). Experiment was done by varying the etching parameters such as CF$_4$/(CF$_4$+Ar) gas mixing ratio, rf power, dc bias voltage and chamber pressure. The maximum etch rate of the BST films was 170nm/min under CF$_4$/CF$_4$+Ar) of 0.1, 600 W/-350 V and 5 mTorr. The selectivities of BST to Pt and PR were 0.6 and 0.7, respectively. Chemical reaction and residue of the etched surface were investigated with X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) and secondary ion mass spectroscopy (SIMS).

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers Conference
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• 2001.07a
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• pp.275-278
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• 2001

Ferroelectric PZT thin films were fabricated on the RuO$_2$/Pt, Pt bottom electrode with a PZT(53/47) metal alkoxide solutions. All PZT thin films showed a uniform grain structure without the presence of rosette structure. The PZT thin films were etched as a function of Cl$_2$/Ar and additive CF$_4$ into Cl$_2$(80%)/Ar(20%). The etch rates of PZT thin films were 1970 ${\AA}$/min at 30 % additive CF$_4$ into Cl$_2$(80%)/Ar(20%). The remanent polarization and leakage current density in PZT thin film on the RuO$_2$/Pt were 64.2 ${\mu}$C/cm$^2$, 1.4${\times}$10$\^$-6/ respectively.

• Electrical & Electronic Materials
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• v.11 no.10
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• pp.46-52
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• 1998

In this study, polarization switching characteristics of Pb(ZrxTil-x)O3 (PZT) thin films were investigated. Switching times(ts) were found to be decreased as the Zr mol% was increased. But, the switching peak currents(Imax) showed the largest value at 50 mol% Zr. As a result of this experiment, ts was found to be depended on the remanent polarization and coercive field and also Imax strongly depended on the dielectric constant of PZT thin films. In order to investigate the partial switching kinetics of PZT thin films, short and relatively small voltage pulses were applied to the MFM(metalferroelectric metal) PZT capacitors and polarization switching curves were measured with a variation of the total width of the applied pulses. Also, the switching curves were measured at different applied voltages(4, 8, 10, 12 and 14 volts). As the applied voltages increased, ts and Imax were found to be decreased and increased, respectively. In case of fatigued specimen which we applied $\pm$10 volts square pulse for 1010 cycles, ts and Imax were found to be shorter and smaller than those of virgin specimens. This is due to the decrease of the remanent polarization and the increase of the coercive field.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 1999.11a
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• pp.31-34
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• 1999

In the present study, we fabricated stoichiometric $(Ba_{1-x}Sr_x)TiO_3$ thin films at various substrate temperature and contents using of magnetron sputtering method on optimized Pt-based electrodes (Pt/TiN/$SiO_2$/Si). The substate temperature deposited at 200[ $^{\circ}C$], 400[$^{\circ}C$] and 600[$^{\circ}C$] and crystalline BST thin films show above 400[$^{\circ}C$]. Also, the composition of $(Ba_{1-x}Sr_x)TiO_3$ thin films deposited on Si wafer substrate at 400[$^{\circ}C$] were closed to stoichiometry($1.015{\sim}1.093$ in A/B ratio), but compositional deviation from a stoichiometry is larger as $SrCO_3$ is added. The drastic decrease of dielectric constant and increase of dielectric loss in $(Ba_{1-x}Sr_x)TiO_3$thin films is observed above 100[kHz]. V-I characteristics of $(Ba_{1-x}Sr_x)TiO_3$ thin films show the decrease of leakage current with the increase of $SrCO_3$ contents.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers Conference
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• 2002.07b
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• pp.581-584
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• 2002

In this work, a CPW resonator was designed and fabricated to investigate the basic microwave properties, such as effective dielectric constant, of BST thin films. Their properties were used as basic data to simulate and design CPW tunable bandpass filter. We also report on gold/$Ba_{0.5}Sr_{0.5}TiO_3$(BST) ferroelectric thin film C-band tunable bandpass filters(BPFs) designed and fabricated on magnesium oxide substrates using CPW structure. The 2 pole filter was designed for a center frequency of 5.88 GHz with a bandwidth of 9 %. The BST based CPW filter offers a high sensitivity parameter as well as a low loss parameter. The tuning range for the bandpass filter with CPW structure was determined to be 170 MHz.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers Conference
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• 2004.11a
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• pp.191-194
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• 2004

Ferroelectric $Pb(Zr_{0.52}Ti_{0.48})O_3$ (PZT) 박막을 $Pt(111)/Ti/SiO_2/Si$ 기판위에 증착되었고, 수소 후열처리 후의 특성변화를 연구하였다. 동시에 10 nm의 $(Pb_{0.72}La_{0.28})Ti_{0.94}O_3$ (PLT) buffer를 사용한 PZT 박막의 수소 후열처리 효과를 관찰하였다. PZT 박막의 경우, 수소 후열처리 전과 후에 강유전 특성이 현저하게 감소한 반면, PLT buffer가 사용된 PZT 박막의 경우, 강유전 특성에 거의 변화가 없었다. 이는 PLT buffer를 사용함으로써 PZT 박막의 배향성이 향상되고, 이에 따라 forming gas에 의한 수소원자가 박막 내로의 침투가 어렵게 된다. 따라서 수소원자에 대한 PZT 박막의 열화되는 현상이 buffer를 사용하는 경우, 거의 나타나지 않게 된다.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers
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• v.15 no.10
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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.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers Conference
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• 2010.06a
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• pp.209-209
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• 2010

Multiferroic properties of $BaTiO_3-CuFe_2O_4$ thin films grown on highly-textured Pt(111)/$TiO_2/SiO_2$/Si(100) substrates were studied. $CuFe_2O_4$ ceramic target was synthesized by mixing oxide powders of CuO, $Fe_2O_03$, $BaTiO_3$ ceramic target was also prepared separately. The film structure was of bi-layer type, where $BaTiO_3$ layer lies underneath of $CuFe_2O_4$ layer, where both layers were grown by pulsed laser deposition technique. We will report the ferroelectric and magnetic properties of $BaTiO_3-CuFe_2O_4$ bi-layer films in some detail.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers
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• v.11 no.2
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• pp.138-145
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• 1998

The $(Pb_{0.9}Ca_{0.1})TiO_3$[PCT] thin films have been deposited by sol-gel processing on Si-wafer and ITO glass substrates. The creak-free films have been obtained by rapid thermal annealing at $700^{\circ}C$ for 10 minute and characterized by XRD, SEM and electrical measurements. Their tetragonality c/a was 1.041 and grain size was $0.15{\sim}0.2{\mu}m$. When the electrode system of sample was Au/PCT/ITO(MFM) and film thickness was $0.8{\mu}m$, dielectric constant, dielectric loss and Curie temperature were about 149, 0.085 and $449^{\circ}C$ at 10kHz, respectively. Spontaneous polarization $P_s$, remnant polarization $P_r$ and coercive field $E_c$ were about $5.29{\mu}C/cm^2$, $4.15{\mu}C/cm^2$ and 82kV/cm calculated by hysteresis loop.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 1996.07c
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• pp.1505-1507
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• 1996

In this study, $(Pb_{0.88}La_{0.12})(Zr_{0.40}Ti_{0.60})O_{2.97}$ (La/Zr/Ti=12/40/60) ceramic thin films were fabricated from an alkoxide-based by Sol-Gel method. PLZT stock solutions were made and spin-coated on the ITO-glass rubstrate at 4000[rpm] for 30[sec]. Coated specimens were baked to remove the organic materials at $400[^{\circ}C]$ for 10[min]. This procedure was repeated 5 times. The coated films were finally annealed at $450{\sim}700[^{\circ}C]$ for 1[hr]. The ferroelectric perovskite phases precipitated under the sintering of $550{\sim}700[^{\circ}C]$ for 1[hr]. Relative dielectric constant of the PLZT thin were increased with increasing the sintering temperature, the thin file sintered at $650[^{\circ}C]$ showed the highest value of 196. But in the PLZT thin film sintered at $700[^{\circ}C]$, relative dielectric constant was greatly decreased due to reacts between ITO electrode and glass substrate. In all thin films, the transmittance was more than 70[%] (at 632.8[nm]).