Abstract
Highly conductive RuO2 thin films were epitaxially grown on (100) LaAlO3 substrates by pulsed laser deposition. The RuO2 film deposited with optimized conditions was (h00) oriented normal to the substrate surface with strong in-plane orientation. The RuO2 thin films deposited at temperatures of above 500 °C demonstrated a room-temperature resistivity of 35 ± 2 μΩ-cm. The Ba0.5Sr0.5TiO3 thin films deposited on epi-RuO2 showed pure (111) orientation normal to the substrate surface, and exhibited dielectric constant above 600 and dielectric loss of 0.03–0.05 at 100 kHz under zero dc bias.