TY - JOUR
KW - Adsorption
KW - Thin films
KW - Molecular beam epitaxy
KW - Stoichiometry
KW - Bismuth oxides
KW - Epitaxial growth
KW - Bismuth compounds
KW - Differential vapor pressures
KW - Adsorption-controlled growth
AU - J.F Ihlefeld
AU - A Kumar
AU - V Gopalan
AU - D.G Schlom
AU - Y.B Chen
AU - X.Q Pan
AU - T Heeg
AU - J Schubert
AU - X Ke
AU - P Schiffer
AU - J Orenstein
AU - L.W Martin
AU - Y.H Chu
AU - Ramamoorthy Ramesh
AB - BiFe O3 thin films have been deposited on (111) SrTi O3 single crystal substrates by reactive molecular-beam epitaxy in an adsorption-controlled growth regime. This is achieved by supplying a bismuth overpressure and utilizing the differential vapor pressures between bismuth oxides and BiFe O3 to control stoichiometry. Four-circle x-ray diffraction reveals phase-pure, untwinned, epitaxial, (0001)-oriented films with rocking curve full width at half maximum values as narrow as 25 arc sec (0.007°). Second harmonic generation polar plots combined with diffraction establish the crystallographic point group of these untwinned epitaxial films to be 3m at room temperature. © 2007 American Institute of Physics.
BT - Applied Physics Letters
DO - 10.1063/1.2767771
LA - eng
M1 - 7
N1 - cited By 70
N2 - BiFe O3 thin films have been deposited on (111) SrTi O3 single crystal substrates by reactive molecular-beam epitaxy in an adsorption-controlled growth regime. This is achieved by supplying a bismuth overpressure and utilizing the differential vapor pressures between bismuth oxides and BiFe O3 to control stoichiometry. Four-circle x-ray diffraction reveals phase-pure, untwinned, epitaxial, (0001)-oriented films with rocking curve full width at half maximum values as narrow as 25 arc sec (0.007°). Second harmonic generation polar plots combined with diffraction establish the crystallographic point group of these untwinned epitaxial films to be 3m at room temperature. © 2007 American Institute of Physics.
PY - 2007
T2 - Applied Physics Letters
TI - Adsorption-controlled molecular-beam epitaxial growth of BiFe O3
VL - 91
SN - 00036951
ER -