Role of oxygen partial pressure and seed layer chemistry in flux mediated epitaxy of single phase multiferroic BiFeO3 thin films

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 93, Issue 19, 2008, Pages

  Anbusathaiah, Varatharajan ^a   Cheng, Ching Jung ^a   Lim, Sung Hwan ^b   Murakami, Makoto ^b   Salamanca Riba, Lourdes G ^b   Takeuchi, Ichiro ^b   Nagarajan, Valanoor ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS; COPPER OXIDES; MICROSCOPIC EXAMINATION; OXYGEN; PARTIAL PRESSURE; POSITIVE IONS; SEED; SEMICONDUCTING BISMUTH COMPOUNDS; THICK FILMS; THIN FILMS;

ALTERNATE ROUTES; BOTTOM SEEDS; ENERGY DISPERSIVE; FLUX CHEMISTRIES; FLUX COMPOSITIONS; MULTIFERROIC; OXYGEN PARTIAL PRESSURES; PIEZORESPONSE FORCE MICROSCOPIES; SECONDARY PHASES; SEED LAYERS;

CRYSTAL GROWTH;

EID: 56249101698     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3021021     Document Type: Article

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