Effects of oriented growth on properties of Ag/Bi4Ti3O12/p-Si heterostructure prepared by Sol-Gel method with rapid thermal annealing techniques

Ag/Bi4Ti3O12/p-Si heterostructures were fabricated by Sol-Gel method with rapid thermal annealing techniques. The effects of oriented growth on ferroelectric characteristics and electrical properties of Bi4Ti3O12 film were investigated. Bi4Ti3O12 films on bare p-Si exhibit preferred c-axis-orientation with the increase of annealing temperature, which would impair the ferroelectric properties but help to drop down the leakage current density of Bi4Ti3O12 films. The Polarization-Voltage curves and the electrical characteristics curves show that the Bi4Ti3O12 films annealed at 650 ° C for 5 min have good ferroelectric and electrical properties with a remanent polarization of 8.3 μ C/cm(2) and a leakage current density of < 5 x 10(-9) A/cm(2) at 6 V, which demonstrate that the Ag/Bi4Ti3O12/p-Si heterostructure by Sol-Gel method with rapid thermal annealing techniques is a promising configuration for MFS-FETs applications. (C) 2005 Springer Science + Business Media, Inc.