Structural and electrical properties of Pb(Zr,Ti)O3 grown on (0001) GaN using a double PbTiO3∕PbO bridge layer

Pb(Zr0.52Ti0.48)O3 films were deposited by rf magnetron sputtering on silicon-doped GaN(0001)∕c-sapphire with a PbTiO3∕PbO oxide bridge layer grown by molecular beam epitaxy. X-ray diffraction data showed the highly (111)-oriented perovskite phase in lead zirconate titanate (PZT) films with PbTiO3∕PbO bridge layers, compared to the pyrochlore phase grown directly on GaN. The in-plane epitaxial relationships were found from x-ray pole figures to be PZT[112¯]‖GaN[11¯00] and PZT[11¯0]‖GaN[112¯0]. The polarization-electric field measurements revealed the ferroelectric behavior with remanent polarization of 30–40μC∕cm2 and asymmetric hysteresis loops due to the depletion layer formed in GaN under reverse bias which resulted in a high negative coercive electric field (950kV∕cm).

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