Articles you may be interested inIn-plane dielectric properties of epitaxial Ba0.7Sr0.3TiO3 thin films grown on GaAs for tunable device application J. Appl. Phys. 112, 054110 (2012); 10.1063/1.4749270 Effect of Pt bottom electrode texture selection on the tetragonality and physical properties of Ba0.8Sr0.2TiO3 thin films produced by pulsed laser deposition J. Appl. Phys. 112, 044105 (2012); 10.1063/1.4748288 Strain relaxation of epitaxial ( Ba 0.6 Sr 0.4 ) ( Zr 0.3 Ti 0.7 ) O 3 thin films grown on SrTiO 3 substrates by pulsed laser depositionEpitaxial Ba 0.7 Sr 0.3 TiO 3 ͑BST͒ thin films were deposited on various single crystal substrates, including LaAlO 3 ͑LAO͒ ͑001͒, ͑LaAlO 3 ͒ 0.3 ͑Sr 2 AlTaO 6 ͒ 0.35 ͑LSAT͒ ͑001͒, and SrTiO 3 ͑STO͒ ͑001͒, using pulsed laser deposition in order to study their structural and electro-optic properties. All the films exhibit a good crystalline quality and a pure perovskite phase with a distorted lattice structure. The in-plane temperature dependence of relative permittivity of the films was measured on interdigital electrodes. The films grown on LAO and LSAT exhibited an obvious room-temperature ferroelectric state, while the film grown on STO showed a broad phase transition peak near room temperature. Correspondingly, large linear electro-optic effects were observed in the BST films grown on LAO and LSAT in a transverse geometry at a wavelength of 632.8 nm using a modified Sénarmont method. The linear electro-optic coefficient r c of the BST films grown on LAO and LSAT was found to be 82.7ϫ 10 −12 and 125.0ϫ 10 −12 m / V, respectively. Nevertheless, a predominantly quadratic and slightly asymmetric electro-optic behavior is observed for the film grown on STO with the quadratic electro-optic coefficient R c of 12.9ϫ 10 −18 m 2 /V 2 .[This article is copyrighted as indicated in the article. Reuse of AIP content is subject to the terms at: http://scitation.aip.org/termsconditions. Downloaded to ] IP: 216.165.95.73 On: Wed, 03 Dec 2014 18:31:33 043515-2 Wang et al. J. Appl. Phys. 101, 043515 ͑2007͒ [This article is copyrighted as indicated in the article. Reuse of AIP content is subject to the terms at: http://scitation.aip.org/termsconditions. Downloaded to ] IP: 216.165.95.73 On: Wed, 03 Dec 2014 18:31:33 043515-4 Wang et al. J. Appl. Phys. 101, 043515 ͑2007͒ [This article is copyrighted as indicated in the article. Reuse of AIP content is subject to the terms at: http://scitation.aip.org/termsconditions. Downloaded to ] IP: 216.165.95.73 On: Wed, 03 Dec 2014 18:31:33 043515-5 Wang et al.