1. BiFeO3 Films Doped in the A or B Sites: Effects on the Structural and Morphological Properties
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Maria R. Catalano, Scillato D, Guglielmo G. Condorelli, Lo Nigro R, Nadia Licciardello, and Graziella Malandrino
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Diffraction ,Fabrication ,Materials science ,Doping ,Biomedical Engineering ,Analytical chemistry ,Bioengineering ,General Chemistry ,Chemical vapor deposition ,Condensed Matter Physics ,Characterization (materials science) ,Homogeneous ,General Materials Science ,Metalorganic vapour phase epitaxy ,Yttria-stabilized zirconia - Abstract
Metal-Organic Chemical Vapor Deposition (MOCVD) has been applied to the fabrication of BiFeO3 films undoped and doped with Ba or Ti on SrTiO3 (100) and YSZ (100) substrates. The films have been deposited using a multi-metal source, consisting of the Bi(phenyl)3, Fe(tmhd)3 and Ba(hfa)2 tetraglyme or Ti(tmhd)2(O-iPr)2 (phenyl = -C6H5, H-tmhd = 2,2,6,6-tetramethyl-3,5-heptandione; O-iPr = iso-propoxide; H-hfa = 1,1,1,5,5,5-hexafluoro-2,4-pentanedione; tetraglyme = CH3O(CH2CH2O)4CH3) precursor mixture. The structural and morphological characterization of films has been carried out using X-ray diffraction (XRD) and field emission scanning electron microscopy (FESEM). Chemical compositional studies have been performed by energy dispersive X-ray (EDX) analysis. Structural and morphological characterizations point to the formation of homogeneous and flat surfaces for both undoped and doped BiFeO3 films.
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- 2011
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