Epitaxial/amorphous Ba0.3Sr0.7TiO3 film composite structure for tunable applications

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 89, Issue 3, 2006, Pages

  Yamada, Tomoaki ^a   Sherman, Vladimir O ^a   Nöth, Andreas ^a   Murait, Paul ^a   Tagantsev, Alexander K ^a   Setter, Nava ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMORPHOUS MATERIALS; BARIUM COMPOUNDS; COMPOSITE MATERIALS; ELECTRODES; EPITAXIAL GROWTH; PERMITTIVITY; THIN FILM CIRCUITS;

COMPOSITE STRUCTURE; ELECTRODE SURFACE; ULTRATHIN AMORPHOUS LAYER;

TITANIUM OXIDES;

EID: 33746271307     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2226999     Document Type: Article

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