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Deposition and characterization of crystalline conductive RuO2 thin films

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 March 2011

Q.X. Jia
Affiliation:
Materials Science and Technology Division, Superconductivity Technology Center, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545
S.G. Song*
Affiliation:
Materials Science and Technology Division, Superconductivity Technology Center, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545
S.R. Foltyn
Affiliation:
Materials Science and Technology Division, Superconductivity Technology Center, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545
X.D. Wu
Affiliation:
Materials Science and Technology Division, Superconductivity Technology Center, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545
*
a)Present address: MST-5, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545.
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Abstract

Highly conductive metal-oxide RuO2 thin films have been successfully grown on yttria-stabilized zirconia (YSZ) substrates by pulsed laser deposition. Epitaxial growth of RuO2 thin films on YSZ and the atomically sharp interface between the RuO2 and the YSZ substrate are clearly evident from cross-sectional transmission electron microscopy. A diagonal-type epitaxy of RuO2 on YSZ is confirmed from x-ray diffraction measurements. The crystalline RuO2 thin films, deposited at temperatures in the range of 500 °C to 700 °C, have a room-temperature resistivity of 35 ± 2 μω-cm, and the residual resistance ratio (R300 k/R4.2 k) is around 5 for the crystalline RuO2 thin films.

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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1995

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