Published June 25, 2006 | Version v1
Journal article

Effect of annealing on the structural and mechanical properties of Ba0.7Sr0.3TiO3 thin films

  • 1. Institute of Mechanical and Electromechanical Engineering, National Formosa University, Yunlin 632, Taiwan (China)
  • 2. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Kun Shan University, Tainan 710, Taiwan (China)
  • 3. Department of Mechanical Engineering, WuFeng Institute of Technology, Chiayi 621, Taiwan (China)
  • 4. Department of Electro-Optics Engineering, National Formosa University, Yunlin 632, Taiwan (China)
  • 5. Department of Materials Science and Engineering, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan 701, Taiwan (China)

Description

Mechanical properties and surface characterizations of Ba0.7Sr0.3TiO3 thin films deposited on silicon substrate by metalorganic decomposition (MOD) method under different annealing temperatures were investigated. Hardness, Young's modulus and the contact stress-strain of the films were achieved by nanoindentation techniques. X-ray diffraction (XRD) and atomic force microscopy (AFM) were used to characterize the structure of Ba0.7Sr0.3TiO3 thin films. The X-ray diffraction results showed that Ba0.7Sr0.3TiO3 thin films exhibited a high (1 1 0)-orientation and presented a pure perovskite-type structure. The grain size and surface roughness increased as the annealing temperature increased. As well, the hardness and Young's modulus increased as the annealing temperature increased from 600 to 800 deg. C, with the best results obtained at 800 deg. C. In addition, contact stress-strain relationships and elastic recovery are also discussed

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Identifiers

DOI
10.1016/j.msea.2006.03.069;
PII
S0921-5093(06)00349-2;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Materials Science and Engineering. A, Structural Materials: Properties, Microstructure and Processing
Journal Volume
426
Journal Issue
1-2
Journal Page Range
p. 157-161
ISSN
0921-5093
CODEN
MSAPE3

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Copyright (c) 2006 Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam, The Netherlands, All rights reserved.