Growth and physical properties of highly oriented La-doped (K,Na)NbO3 ferroelectric thin films

Lead-free (K,Na)NbO3 (KNN) and La doped (K,Na)NbO3 (KNN-La) thin films are grown on SrTiO3 substrates using the chemical solution deposition method. The effect of adding different amounts of Na and K excess (0-20 mol%) is investigated. The results confirm the necessity of adding 20 mol% excess amoun...

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Autores: Vendrell Villafruela, Xavier|||0000-0003-4705-8253, Raymond, Oscar, Ochoa Guerrero, Diego A.|||0000-0002-8756-9704, García García, José Eduardo|||0000-0002-1232-1739, Mestres, Lourdes
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2015
País:España
Institución:Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)
Repositorio:UPCommons. Portal del coneixement obert de la UPC
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:upcommons.upc.edu:2117/28551
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/2117/28551
https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tsf.2015.01.038
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Ferroelectric thin films
Pyrolysis
Ceramics
Chemical solution deposition
(K0.5Na0.5)NbO3
Ferroelectric
Thin films
Pyrolysis temperature
Electrical-properties
Ferroelectricitat
Piròlisi
Ceràmica
Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Física
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Sumario:Lead-free (K,Na)NbO3 (KNN) and La doped (K,Na)NbO3 (KNN-La) thin films are grown on SrTiO3 substrates using the chemical solution deposition method. The effect of adding different amounts of Na and K excess (0-20 mol%) is investigated. The results confirm the necessity of adding 20 mol% excess amounts of Na and K precursor solutions in order to avoid the formation of the secondary phase, K4Nb6O17, as confirmed by X-ray diffraction and Raman spectroscopy. Moreover, when adding a 20 mol% of alkaline metal excess, the thin films are highly textured with out-of-plane preferential orientation in the [100] direction of the [100] orientation of the substrate. Doping with lanthanum results in a decrease of the leakage current density at low electric field, and an increase in the dielectric permittivity across the whole temperature range (80-380 K). Although the (100)-oriented KNN and KNN-La films exhibited rounded hysteresis loops, at low temperatures the films show the typical ferroelectric hysteresis loops. (C) 2015 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.