Growth of highly (h00) oriented barium strontium titanate films on silicon substrates using conducting LaNiO3 electrode

(Ba,Sr)TiO3 (BST) thin films were deposited on the conducting perovskite LaNiO3 electrode by radio-frequency (rf) magnetron sputtering technique. To investigate the crystalline of BST films, the substrate temperatures (Td) in the range of 100°C-700°C were applied. The transition from amorphous phase to polycrystalline phase for the films occurred at low growth temperature 300°C. When the growth temperature approached 500°C, highly (h00)-oriented films were obtained. The relative dielectric constant (εr) increased rapidly with enhancing growth temperature because of improved crystallinity, and showed slowly increase above 500°C. In addition, the capacitance-voltage characteristics were studied with various growth temperatures. The tunability increased largely with good crystallinity. This can be attributed to increased dielectric constants.