How r-plane Al2O3 surface modifications impact the growth of epitaxial (001) CeO2 thin films

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

6-25-2009

Department

Department of Materials Science and Engineering

Abstract

We present evidence that it is the presence or absence of atomic terraces with a specific crystallographic orientation on the (102) Al 2O 3 surface that promotes growth of single-crystal (001) CeO 2 films over polycrystalline (111) CeO 2 films. The CeO 2 film nucleates so that the [010] and [100] directions of the film align parallel and perpendicular to the terrace edges. In the absence of terraces, multidomain (111) CeO 2 films result in which the in-plane orientation of the two domains are rotated by 85.71°, so that a [110] CeO 2 direction aligns parallel to either the [2̄21] or [2̄4̄1] Al 2O 3 direction.

Publication Title

Journal of Electronic Materials

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