Abstract
We investigated infrared-active phonons of CaTiO3, SrTiO 3, BaTiO3, and Ba0.5Sr0.5TiO 3 thin films, and a (BaTiO3)5/(SrTiO 3)5 artificial superlattice by a Fourier transform infrared spectrometer with a grazing angle (48°) incident reflectance method. The longitudinal phonon energies of the thin films were different from those of the bulk material due to the lattice strain of the substrate. The Ba0.5Sr0.5TiO3 thin film and (BaTiO 3)5/(SrTiO3)5 superlattice showed different phonon modes due to structural discrepancies, even though their chemical compositions are similar. The Ba0.5Sr0.5TiO 3 thin film showed a single phonon energy lying between the phonon energies of BaTiO3 and SrTiO3 thin films, while the (BaTiO3)5/(SrTiO3)5 superlattice well preserved the characteristic phonon modes of BaTiO3 and SrTiO3 thin films.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 94-97 |
Number of pages | 4 |
Journal | Thin Solid Films |
Volume | 486 |
Issue number | 1-2 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Aug 22 2005 |
Funding
This work is supported by the Ministry of Science and Technology through the Creative Research Initiative program in Korea, and one of the authors (HNL) acknowledges support from the U.S. Department of Energy under Contract No. DE-AC05-00OR22725 with the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, managed by UT-Battelle, LLC, as part of a BES NSET initiative on Nanoscale Cooperative Phenomena and of the LDRD Program.
Funders | Funder number |
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BES NSET | |
U.S. Department of Energy | DE-AC05-00OR22725 |
Oak Ridge National Laboratory | |
Laboratory Directed Research and Development | |
Ministerio de Ciencia y Tecnología |
Keywords
- Dielectrics
- Infrared spectroscopy
- Superlattices
- Titanium oxide