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APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS
Volume 107, Issue 3, Pages -Publisher
AMER INST PHYSICS
DOI: 10.1063/1.4927450
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- MEXT Elements Strategy Initiative to Form Core Research Center
- JSPS KAKENHI [25889024]
- MEXT KAKENHI [26106509]
- Center for Integrated Nanotechnology Support at Tohoku University
- Nanotechnology Network Project of the MEXT of the Japanese Government
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [26106509, 25889024] Funding Source: KAKEN
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YO1.5-substituted HfO2 thin films with various substitution amounts were grown on (100) YSZ substrates by the pulsed laser deposition method directly from the vapor phase. The epitaxial growth of film with different YO1.5 amounts was confirmed by the X-ray diffraction method. Wide-area reciprocal lattice mapping measurements were performed to clarify the crystal symmetry of films. The formed phases changed from low-symmetry monoclinic baddeleyite to highsymmetry tetragonal/cubic fluorite phases through an orthorhombic phase as the YO1.5 amount increased from 0 to 0.15. The additional annular bright-field scanning transmission electron microscopy indicates that the orthorhombic phase has polar structure. This means that the direct growth by vapor is of polar orthorhombic HfO2-based film. Moreover, high-temperature X-ray diffraction measurements showed that the film with a YO1.5 amount of 0.07 with orthorhombic structure at room temperature only exhibited a structural phase transition to tetragonal phase above 450 degrees C. This temperature is much higher than the reported maximum temperature of 200 degrees C to obtain ferroelectricity as well as the expected temperature for real device application. The growth of epitaxial orthorhombic HfO2-based film helps clarify the nature of ferroelectricity in HfO2-based films (186 words/200 words). (C) 2015 AIP Publishing LLC.
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