Abstract
Lead zirconate titanate (PZT)/ bismuth ferrite (BFO) multilayer thin films have been fabricated by the spin-coating method on Pt(200 nm)/Ti(10 nm)/<TEX>$SiO_2$</TEX>(100 nm)/p-Si(100) substrates using <TEX>$BiFeO_3$</TEX> and <TEX>$Pb(Zr_{0.52}Ti_{0.48})O_3$</TEX> metal alkoxide solutions. The PZT/BFO multilayer thin films show a uniform and void-free grain structure, and the grain size is smaller than that of PZT single films. The reason for this is assumed to be that the lower BFO layers play an important role as a nucleation site or seed layer for the formation of homogeneous and uniform upper PZT layers. The dielectric constant and dielectric losses decreased with increasing number of coatings, and the six-layer PZT/BFO thin film has good properties of 162 (dielectric constant) and 0.017 (dielectric losses) at 1 kHz. The remnant polarization and coercive field of three-layer PZT/BFO thin films were 13.86 <TEX>${\mu}C/cm^2$</TEX> and 37 kV/cm respectively.
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