Electronic Resource
Woodbury, NY
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American Institute of Physics (AIP)
Applied Physics Letters
61 (1992), S. 3116-3117
ISSN:
1077-3118
Source:
AIP Digital Archive
Topics:
Physics
Notes:
Sapphire (0001) basal plane is a commonly used substrate for film depositions. Due to the threefold rotational symmetry of the (0001) substrate surface, epitaxial films deposited are expected to form at most three variants with relative orientations of 120° and 240°. However, epitaxial TiO2 (tetragonal) and VO2 (monoclinic) films deposited on sapphire (0001) substrates by the metalorganic chemical vapor deposition technique were found to have six variants of relative orientations of 60°, 120°, 180°, 240°, and 300° based on the x-ray diffraction studies. Furthermore, epitaxial MgO (cubic) films deposited on sapphire (0001) substrates by the molecular beam epitaxy technique were found to have two variants which are mirror images about the (12¯10) plane from the high resolution electron microscopy. We show that these unconventional film microstructures found experimentally are caused by the substrate surface steps.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.107978
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