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BiFeO3 thin films have been grown on Pt/Ti/SiO2/Si substrates with pulsed laser deposition using Au as the top electrode. The resistive switching property of the Au/BiFeO3/Pt stack has been significantly improved by carefully tuning the…
The application of a substrate bias during rf magnetron sputtering alters the crystalline structure, grain morphology, lattice strain and composition of BaxSr1-xTiO3 thin films. As a result, the dielectric properties of Pt/BaxSr1-xTiO3/Pt…
The interplay between substrates and superconducting thin films has attracted increasing attention. Here, we report an in-depth investigation on superconducting properties of the epitaxial TiN thin films grown on three different substrates…
We report the epitaxial growth of BiFeO3 by pulsed electron deposition and the resulting crystal quality, magnetic and nanoscale switching properties. X-ray diffraction shows high quality single phase, epitaxial (001) oriented films grown…
BiFeO3 thin films are deposited on FTO coated glass substrates using a simple sol-gel deposition technique, limiting thickness about 70 nm and Ag/BiFeO3/FTO RRAM devices are prepared. The devices showed low-voltage bipolar switching with…
The recent emergence of topological insulators (TI) has spurred intensive efforts to grow TI thin films on various substrates. However, little is known about how robust the topological surface states (TSS) are against disorders and other…
Nonvolatile bipolar resistive switching has been observed in an Au/BiFeO3/Pt structure, where a Schottky contact and a quasi-Ohmic contact were formed at the Au/BiFeO3 and BiFeO3/Pt interface, respectively. By changing the polarity of the…
We investigated the reversible resistive switching of poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene):polystyrenesulfonate (PEDOT:PSS) thin films sandwiched between Al electrodes. The J-V sweep curve showed a hysteretic behavior which depends on the…
We have investigated the structural and magnetic properties of BiFeO$_3$ (BFO) thin films grown over (100)-oriented Si substrates by rf magnetron sputtering in a new route under O$_2$ free low pressure Ar atmosphere. Single-phase BFO films…
Using isothermal and temperature-dependent electrical measurements, we investigated the resistive switching mechanism of amorphous titanium oxide thin films deposited by a plasma-enhanced atomic layer deposition method between two aluminum…
Multiferroic BiFeO3 (BFO) thin film exhibiting desired ferroelectric and enhanced magnetic properties was grown on La0.67Sr0.33MnO3 (LSMO) buffered Pt/TiO2/SiO2/Si substrates by off-axis RF magnetic sputtering, where a highly (111)-oriented…
Interface effects on the ferroelectric behavior of PbTiO$_3$ ultrathin films deposited on SrTiO$_3$ substrate are investigated using an interatomic potential approach with parameters fitted to first-principles calculations. We find that the…
Transition metal nitrides are a fascinating class of hard coating material that provide an excellent platform for investigating superconductivity and fundamental electron phonon interactions. In this work the structural morphological and…
Sm0.53Sr0.47MnO3 thin films were deposited on single crystal LaAlO3 (LAO/(001)) and SrTiO3 (STO/(001)) substrates by DC magnetron sputtering. The theta-2theta and omega-2theta scans show that these films have very good crystallinity and the…
Multiferroic BiFeO3 (BFO) / La0.7Sr0.3MnO3 heterostructured thin films were grown by pulsed laser deposition on polished spark plasma sintered LaAlO3 (LAO) polycrystalline substrates. Both polycrystalline LAO substrates and BFO films were…
The structural interface properties of layered Pt/Ti/SiO2/Si electrodes have been investigated using high-resolution specular and diffuse x-ray reflectivity under grazing angles. Currently this multilayer system represents a technological…
Highly-crystalline ferroelectric oxides integrated on Si hold great promise for energy-efficient memory and logic technologies. Exploiting epitaxial strain engineering in these materials is, however, severely hampered on Si, where the large…
We investigate ferroelectric- and resistive switching behavior in 18-nm-thick epitaxial BaTiO$_3$ (BTO) films in a model electrolyte-ferroelectric-semiconductor (EFS) configuration. The system is explored for its potential as a…
(Ba0.6Sr0.4)(Zr0.3Ti0.7)O3 thin films were grown on IrO2 and Pt coated Si substrates. Film on Pt electrode showed large dielectric dispersion at lower frequency and on other hand film on IrO2 showed dielectric constant almost independent…
Recently, the signs of both superconducting transition temperature (Tc) beyond 60 K and spin density wave (SDW) have been observed in FeSe thin film on SrTiO3 (STO) substrate, which suggests a strong interplay between superconductivity and…