Electrically tunable dielectric materials and strategies to improve their performances

LB Kong, S Li, TS Zhang, JW Zhai, FYC Boey… - Progress in Materials …, 2010 - Elsevier
Electrically tunable dielectric materials have potential applications as various microwave
devices, such as tunable oscillators, phase shifters and varactors. High dielectric tunability …

Challenges and opportunities for multi-functional oxide thin films for voltage tunable radio frequency/microwave components

G Subramanyam, MW Cole, NX Sun… - Journal of applied …, 2013 - pubs.aip.org
There has been significant progress on the fundamental science and technological
applications of complex oxides and multiferroics. Among complex oxide thin films, barium …

Influence of anisotropic strain on the dielectric and ferroelectric properties of thin films on substrates

MD Biegalski, E Vlahos, G Sheng, YL Li… - Physical Review B …, 2009 - APS
The in-plane dielectric and ferroelectric properties of coherent anisotropically strained SrTiO
3 thin films grown on orthorhombic (101) DyScO 3 substrates were examined as a function …

Electrothermal properties of perovskite ferroelectric films

J Zhang, AA Heitmann, SP Alpay… - Journal of materials …, 2009 - Springer
The electrothermal properties of the perovskite oxides barium titanate (BTO), lead titanate
(PTO), and strontium titanate (STO) are computed near the temperatures of their ferroelectric …

Stress induced monoclinic phase in epitaxial BaTiO3 on MgO

IB Misirlioglu, SP Alpay, F He, BO Wells - Journal of applied physics, 2006 - pubs.aip.org
We present a detailed strain analysis of epitaxial ferroelectric films taking into account
multiple sources of strain, including the lattice mismatch between the film and the substrate …

Electrocaloric properties of epitaxial strontium titanate films

J Zhang, IB Misirlioglu, SP Alpay… - Applied Physics Letters, 2012 - pubs.aip.org
The electrocaloric (EC) response of strontium titanate thin films is computed as a function of
misfit strain, temperature, electric field strength, and electrode configuration using a …

Phase diagrams, dielectric response, and piezoelectric properties of epitaxial ultrathin (001) lead zirconate titanate films under anisotropic misfit strains

QY Qiu, SP Alpay, V Nagarajan - Journal of Applied Physics, 2010 - pubs.aip.org
We develop a nonlinear thermodynamic model to predict the phase stability of ultrathin
epitaxial (001)-oriented ferroelectric PbZr 1− x Ti x O 3 (PZT) films with x= 1⁠. 0, 0.9, 0.8, and …

Dipole azimuth dependent permittivity in randomly and (100) oriented (Pb, Sr) TiO 3 thin films

Z Zheng, Y Yao, W Weng, G Han, N Ma… - Journal of Materials …, 2011 - pubs.rsc.org
(Pb, Sr) TiO3 (PST) is a typical nonlinear dielectric material with its permittivity tunable under
DC bias. In this context, randomly oriented and (100) oriented PST thin films have been …

Misfit strain relaxation in (Ba0. 60Sr0. 40) TiO3 epitaxial thin films on orthorhombic NdGaO3 substrates

WK Simon, EK Akdogan, A Safari - Applied physics letters, 2006 - pubs.aip.org
Strain relaxation in (Ba 0.60 Sr 0.40) TiO 3 (BST) thin films on⟨ 110⟩ orthorhombic NdGaO
3 substrates is investigated by x-ray diffractometry. Pole figure analysis indicates a [010] …

Thickness-dependent dielectric and tunable properties of barium stannate titanate thin films

S Song, J Zhai, L Gao, X Yao, S Lu, Z Xu - Journal Of Applied Physics, 2009 - pubs.aip.org
Barium stannate titanate Ba (Sn 0.15 Ti 0.85) O 3 (BTS) thin films with different thicknesses
were grown by sol-gel process on single crystal LaAlO 3 (LAO) and Pt/Ti/SiO 2/Si substrates …