Substrate-controlled allotropic phases and growth orientation of TiO2epitaxial thin films
- 9 November 2010
- journal article
- research article
- Published by International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) in Journal of Applied Crystallography
- Vol. 43 (6) , 1502-1512
Abstract
TiO2thin films were grown by pulsed laser deposition on a wide variety of oxide single-crystal substrates and characterized in detail by four-circle X-ray diffraction. Films grown at 873 K on (100)-oriented SrTiO3and LaAlO3were (001)-oriented anatase, while on (100) MgO they were (100)-oriented. On (110) SrTiO3and MgO, (102) anatase was observed. OnM-plane andR-plane sapphire, (001)- and (101)-oriented rutile films were obtained, respectively. OnC-plane sapphire, the coexistence of (001) anatase, (112) anatase and (100) rutile was found; increasing the deposition temperature tended to increase the rutile proportion. Similarly, films grown at 973 K on (100) and (110) MgO showed the emergence, besides anatase, of (110) rutile. All these films were epitaxically grown, as shown by φ scans and/or pole figures, and the various observed orientations were explained on the basis of misfit considerations and interface arrangement.Keywords
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