A Study on Preferred Orientation of ZnO Piezoelectric Thin Film Using Helped Seed Layer

보조씨드층을 이용한 ZnO 압전박막의 우선배향성에 관한 연구

  • Park, In-Chul (Dept. of Electronic Eng. Cheongju University) ;
  • Kim, Hong-Bae (Div. of Electronic and Information Eng. Cheongju University)
  • 박인철 (청주대학교 전자공학과) ;
  • 김홍배 (청주대학교 전자정보공학부)
  • Published : 2006.11.30

Abstract

The most important factor which determines resonance characteristics of FBAR(Film Bulk Acoustic Resonator) is the piezoelectricity of piezoelectric film. The piezoelectric properties of ZnO thin films which is strong as FBAR piezoelectric film is determined by the degree of c-axis preferred orientation with (002) plan. Therefore, many researchers have been interested in the study on the preferred orientation of the piezoelectric thin film. This paper has studied the preferred orientation of ZnO piezoelectric thin films using the helped seed layer of ZnO. The result shows that the c-axis ZnO thin films with columnar grains that the value of standard $deviation(\sigma)$ of XRD rocking curve is of $\sigma=1.15^{\circ}$ have the excellent piezoelectric property.

FBAR(Film Bulk Acoustic Resonator) 소자의 공진특성을 결정하는 가장 중요한 요소는 압전막의 압전성을 들 수 있다. FBAR 압전막으로 유력한 ZnO 압전박막은 (002)면 c-축 우선배향성(preferred orientation)의 정도에 따라서 압전성이 결정된다. 그러므로 ZnO 박막의 우선배향성에 관한 연구는 많은 연구자들의 관심사가 되어왔다. 본 논문에서는 ZnO 보조씨드충(helped seed layer)을 이용하여 ZnO 압전박막의 우선배향성에 대하여 조사하였으며, rocking curve의 표준편차$(\sigma)$ 값이 $1.15^{\circ}$인 주상형 결정립을 가진 c-축 ZnO 압전박막이 우수한 압전특성을 나타내는 것을 확인하였다.

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