Pulsed laser deposited lead zirconate titanate thin films for micro actuators

  • Lulu Zhang
  • , Masaaki Ichiki
  • , Jiunnjye Tsaur
  • , Zhan Jie Wang
  • , Ryutaro Maeda

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Abstract

Lead zirconate titanate (Pb(ZrxTi1-x)O3): PZT) films were deposited by pulsed laser ablation on Si/SiO2/Ti/Pt substrates with one seed layer of sol-gel derived PZT at a deposition rate of 0.7 μm/h and substrate temperature of about 500°C. The fabricated films showed the perovskite PZT phase without pyrochlore phase. The dielectric constant was approximately 1580 when measured at 1 kHz. The values of the saturation polarization, remanent polarization and coercive field of the 0.8-μ.m-thick film were about 46.6μC/cm2, 24.6 μC/cm 2 and 36.4 kV/cm, respectively. Furthermore, a lower tensile stress (approximately 33 MPa) was obtained by wafer curvature measurements before and after PZT deposition. The piezoelectric coefficient d31 was measured using a bimorph-beam and a value of 13 pC/N was obtained.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)3986-3990
Number of pages5
JournalJapanese Journal of Applied Physics
Volume42
Issue number6 B
DOIs
StatePublished - Jun 2003
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Ferroelectric and dielectric properties
  • Lead zirconate titanate (PZT)
  • Piezoelectric coefficient d
  • Pulsed laser ablation
  • Sol-gel technique
  • Stresses

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