Ferroelectric Switching in Hybrid Molecular Beam Epitaxy-Grown BaTiO3 Films

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Autori principali: Manjeshwar, Anusha Kamath, Yang, Zhifei, Liao, Chin-Hsiang, Wen, Jiaxuan, Koester, Steven J., James, Richard D., Jalan, Bharat
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author Manjeshwar, Anusha Kamath
Yang, Zhifei
Liao, Chin-Hsiang
Wen, Jiaxuan
Koester, Steven J.
James, Richard D.
Jalan, Bharat
author_facet Manjeshwar, Anusha Kamath
Yang, Zhifei
Liao, Chin-Hsiang
Wen, Jiaxuan
Koester, Steven J.
James, Richard D.
Jalan, Bharat
contents Molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) is a promising synthesis technique for both heterostructure growth and epitaxial integration of ferroelectric BaTiO3. However, a direct measurement of the remnant polarization (P_r) has not been previously reported in MBE-grown BaTiO3 films. We report the in-situ growth of an all-epitaxial SrRuO3/BaTiO3/SrRuO3 heterostructure on Nb-doped SrTiO3 (001) substrates by hybrid MBE using metal-organic precursors. This capacitor structure consisting of 16 nm SrRuO3/40 nm BaTiO3/16 nm SrRuO3 shows hysteretic polarization-electric field (P-E) curves with P_r = 15 μC cm-2 at frequencies ranging from 500 Hz to 20 kHz, after isolating the intrinsic ferroelectric response from non-ferroelectric contributions using the Positive-Up-Negative-Down (PUND) method. We hypothesize that the asymmetry in switching behavior and current leakage has origins in structural defects.
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spellingShingle Ferroelectric Switching in Hybrid Molecular Beam Epitaxy-Grown BaTiO3 Films
Manjeshwar, Anusha Kamath
Yang, Zhifei
Liao, Chin-Hsiang
Wen, Jiaxuan
Koester, Steven J.
James, Richard D.
Jalan, Bharat
Materials Science
Molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) is a promising synthesis technique for both heterostructure growth and epitaxial integration of ferroelectric BaTiO3. However, a direct measurement of the remnant polarization (P_r) has not been previously reported in MBE-grown BaTiO3 films. We report the in-situ growth of an all-epitaxial SrRuO3/BaTiO3/SrRuO3 heterostructure on Nb-doped SrTiO3 (001) substrates by hybrid MBE using metal-organic precursors. This capacitor structure consisting of 16 nm SrRuO3/40 nm BaTiO3/16 nm SrRuO3 shows hysteretic polarization-electric field (P-E) curves with P_r = 15 μC cm-2 at frequencies ranging from 500 Hz to 20 kHz, after isolating the intrinsic ferroelectric response from non-ferroelectric contributions using the Positive-Up-Negative-Down (PUND) method. We hypothesize that the asymmetry in switching behavior and current leakage has origins in structural defects.
title Ferroelectric Switching in Hybrid Molecular Beam Epitaxy-Grown BaTiO3 Films
topic Materials Science
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.01905