Sol-gel fabrication and samarium doping of ferroelectric BiFeO3 thin films

• Main Author: Loh, Joel Yi Yang.
• Other Authors: Chen Lang
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2010
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Materials
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/20804
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Bismuth Ferrite (BFO) thin films of ~200nm were fabricated via a sol-gel spin coating method. Troubleshooting of the recipe proved partially successful in obtaining BFO samples with low density of defects. Hence leakage current remains high in the BFO samples and good hysteresis loops could not be o...