論文 Conductive single-phase SrMoO 3 epitaxial films synthesized in pure Ar ambience via plasma-assisted radio frequency sputtering

Mouli Roy-Chowdhury ORCID ; Cong He ; Ke Tang ; Hiroki Koizumi ; Zhenchao Wen SAMURAI ORCID ; Subhash Thota ; Hiroaki Sukegawa SAMURAI ORCID ; Tadakatsu Ohkubo SAMURAI ORCID ; Seiji Mitani SAMURAI ORCID

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Mouli Roy-Chowdhury, Cong He, Ke Tang, Hiroki Koizumi, Zhenchao Wen, Subhash Thota, Hiroaki Sukegawa, Tadakatsu Ohkubo, Seiji Mitani. Conductive single-phase SrMoO 3 epitaxial films synthesized in pure Ar ambience via plasma-assisted radio frequency sputtering. Science and Technology of Advanced Materials. 2024, 25 (1), . https://doi.org/10.1080/14686996.2024.2378684
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The cubic perovskite SrMoO3 with a paramagnetic ground state and remarkably low room-temperature resistivity has been considered as a suitable candidate for the new-era oxide-based technology. However, the difficulty of preparing single-phase SrMoO3 thin films by hydrogen-free sputtering has hindered their practical use, especially due to the formation of thermodynamically favorable SrMoO4 impurity. In this work, we developed a radio frequency sputtering technology enabling the reduction reaction and achieved conductive epitaxial SrMoO3 films with pure phase from a SrMoO4 target in a hydrogen-free, pure argon environment. We demonstrated the significance of controlling the target-to-substrate distance (TSD) on the synthesis of SrMoO3; the film resistivity drastically changes from 1.46 × 105 μΩ·cm to 250 μΩ·cm by adjusting the TSD. Cross-sectional microstructural analyses demonstrated that films with the lowest resistivity, deposited for TSD = 2.5 cm, possess a single-phase SrMoO3 with an epitaxial perovskite structure. The formation mechanism of the conductive single-phase SrMoO3 films can be attributed to the plasma-assisted growth process by tuning the TSD. Temperature-dependent resistivity and Hall effect studies revealed metal-like conducting properties for low-resistive SrMoO3 films while the high-resistive ones displayed semiconductor-like behavior. Our approach makes hydrogen-free, reliable and cost-efficient scalable deposition of SrMoO3 films possible, which may open up promising prospects for a wide range of future applications of oxide materials.

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キーワード: plasma-assisted RF sputtering technology, reduction reaction, single-phase conductive SrMoO3 epitaxial films

刊行年月日: 2024-12-31

出版者: Informa UK Limited

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  • Science and Technology of Advanced Materials (ISSN: 14686996) vol. 25 issue. 1

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  • JST CREST JPMJCR19J4

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公開URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/14686996.2024.2378684

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