Epitaxial growth of highly conductive RuO2 thin films on (100) Si

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Jia, QX [1 ]
Song, SG [1 ]
Wu, XD [1 ]
Cho, JH [1 ]
Foltyn, SR [1 ]
Findikoglu, AT [1 ]
Smith, JL [1 ]
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[1] LOS ALAMOS NATL LAB,MST5,LOS ALAMOS,NM 87545
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10.1063/1.115715
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Conductive RuO2 thin films have been heteroepitaxially grown by pulsed laser deposition on Si substrates with yttria-stabilized zirconia (YSZ) buffer layers. The RuO2 thin films deposited under optimized processing conditions are a-axis oriented normal to the Si substrate surface with a high degree of in-plane alignment with the major axes of the (100) Si substrate. Cross-sectional transmission electron microscopy analysis on the RuO2/YSZ/Si multilayer shows an atomically sharp interface between the RuO2 and the YSZ. Electrical measurements show that the crystalline RuO2 thin films are metallic over a temperature range from 4.2 to 300 K and are highly conductive with a room-temperature resistivity of 37+/-2 mu Omega cm. The residual resistance ratio (R(300 K)/R(4.2 K)) above 5 for our RuO2 thin films is the highest ever reported for such films on Si substrates. (C) 1996 American Institute of Physics.
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