Abstract
AbstractThe 400–450-nm-thick Bi_4Ti_3O_12 thin films with various orientations of crystallites with respect to a normal to the (100)Si substrate plane have been studied. It is established that the crystallite orientation can be controlled by varying the composition of the 4-nm-thick Ba_ x Sr_1 – _ x TiO_3 sublayer. The use of Ba_0.4Sr_0.6TiO_3 as a sublayer leads to the growth of the Bi_4Ti_3O_12 film in the single-crystal state with plane (001) parallel to the substrate plane and with a monoclinic distortion of the crystal structure. The Ba_0.8Sr_0.2TiO_3 sublayer is shown to lead to the formation of four crystallite orientations: (111), (117), (100), and (110) and two groups of domains in the Bi_4Ti_3O_12 film; the first group with the polarization direction p-erpendicularly to the substrate and the second group with the polarization directed in the angular range 45.2°–57° with respect to a normal to the substrate. It is shown that, in the Bi_4Ti_3O_12 film with the Ba_0.8Sr_0.2TiO_3 sublayer, the polarization is directed to the substrate and is switched to new stable state with the polarization direction from the substrate when applying an external voltage higher than a critical one (4 V).
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