Low-Temperature Dielectric Response of Strontium Titanate Thin Films Manipulated by Zn Doping.

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Department of Materials and Ceramic Engineering, CICECO-Aveiro Institute of Materials, University of Aveiro, 3810-193 Aveiro, Portugal.

Published: January 2022


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The voltage dependence of the dielectric permittivity ' and the low dielectric loss tan of incipient ferroelectrics have drawn vast attention to the use of these materials for the development of tuning elements in electronics and telecommunications. Here, we study the DC electric field dependence of low-temperature ' in ~320 nm thick sol-gel-derived SrTiZnO thin films with x = 0.01 and 0.05, deposited on Pt/TiO/SiO/Si substrates. Incorporation of Zn onto Ti sites is found to decrease ' compared to undoped SrTiO films, while increasing the relative tunability up to ~32.9% under a DC electric field of 125 kV/cm at low temperatures. The hysteresis-free variation in ' with electric field and tan values below 0.6% observed for SrTiZnO film with x = 0.01 make this compound more attractive for tunable device applications.

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