Crystal Structure Analysis of Hydrothermally Synthesized Epitaxial (K<sub>x</sub>Na<sub>1-x</sub>)NbO<sub>3</sub> Films

Takahisa Shiraishi, Noriyuki Kaneko, Hiro Einishi, Takao Shimizu, Minoru Kurosawa, Hiroshi Uchida, Takeshi Kobayashi, Takanori Kiguchi, Toyohiko J. Konno, Hiroshi Funakubo

Japanese Journal of Applied Physics · 2013 · 23 citations · 27 references

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Abstract

Epitaxial (K x Na 1- x )NbO 3 films with various compositions x were deposited on Nb-doped (100)SrTiO 3 single crystal substrates at 240 °C by the hydrothermal method. Detailed crystal structures were analyzed by X-ray diffraction. All the (K x Na 1- x )NbO 3 films consisted of a perovskite phase without any impurity phase. High-temperature XRD data showed that (K x Na 1- x )NbO 3 films with x = 0.03 and 0.86 transformed to a single cubic phase at 600 °C through the intermediate phase. On the other hand, (K x Na 1- x )NbO 3 films with x = 0.24 showed two diffraction peaks at 600 °C originating from individual phases having different unit cell volumes. The result shows that these films consisted of a mixture of two perovskite phases with K- and Na- rich (K x Na 1- x )NbO 3 composition.

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