Abstract:
The peculiarities of the growth of PZT films on heteroepitaxial Ir/YSZ/Si structures under conditions of cathode radio-frequency sputtering of a ceramic target in argon-oxygen mixtures have been studied. It is shown that sputtering in a gas mixture with a high partial pressure of oxygen results in crystallization of the PZT films in a metastable pyrochlore structure, while sputtering in argon or the use of argon in the initial phase of the sputtering yields PZT films with an equilibrium perovskite structure.