%0 Journal Article %K lead %K Perovskite %K zirconium %K cobalt compounds %K Epitaxial growth %K ferroelectricity %K Strontium titanates %K X ray diffraction %K Strontium alloys %K Remnant polarizations %K Epitaxial ferroelectric %K SrTiO %K Epitaxial films %K In-plane %K Semiconducting silicon compounds %K PZT %K Template layers %K Pb(Zr %K Ti)O %K Out-of-plane %K Polycrystalline film %K X-ray diffraction studies %A Y Wang %A C Ganpule %A B.T Liu %A H Li %A K Mori %A B Hill %A M Wuttig %A Ramamoorthy Ramesh %A J Finder %A Z Yu %A R Droopad %A K Eisenbeiser %B Applied Physics Letters %D 2002 %G eng %P 97-99 %R 10.1063/1.1428413 %T Epitaxial ferroelectric Pb(Zr,Ti)O3 thin films on Si using SrTiO3 template layers %V 80 %X In this letter, we report on the integration of epitaxial ferroelectric Pb(Zr,Ti)O3 (PZT) thin films on Si [100] substrates using a SrTiO3 (STO) template layer and a conducting perovskite (La 0.5Sr0.5)CoO3 electrode. X-ray diffraction studies reveal both in-plane and out-of-plane alignment of the heterostructure. The epitaxial films show extremely high remnant polarization as well as piezoelectric d33 coefficients compared to textured and untextured polycrystalline films. © 2002 American Institute of Physics.