Abstract
(Ba0.55Sr0.45)(Zr0.1Ti0.9)O3 (BSZT) thin films were deposited by pulsed laser deposition on LSAT(001) substrates. X-ray diffraction characterization reveals a good quality of crystallization and epitaxial nature of the films. The in-plane dielectric properties of the films were characterized over a wide frequency range from 50 MHz to 20 GHz by using ring resonator-structured samples. Based on the S-parameter measurements and electromagnetic simulation it was found that microwave dielectric constant of the BSZT thin film is ∼350. Large dielectric tunability was also observed in this material.
Acknowledgments
The authors thank Dr L. X. He for helpful discussions. Support from the HKSAR ITF project (K-ZS0B) and Centre for Smart Materials of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University are acknowledged.