Structural, optical and magnetic properties of Fe-doped barium stannate thin films grown by PLD

Barium stannate is a wide band gap semiconductor with cubic perovskite structure. Polycrystalline bulk samples of BaSn1−xFexO3d (BFS), with x = 0.00, 0.02, 0.03, 0.05 and 0.10 were prepared by solid-state reaction. In this paper, we report the growth of undoped and Fe doped barium stannate thin films on fused silica substrate using pulsed laser deposition (PLD) technique at a relatively high substrate temperature and low oxygen pressure. The deposited films have wide bandgap and are transparent in the visible region. The X-ray diffraction analysis of the films confirmed the cubic structure. Microstructural studies were carried out using micro-Raman spectroscopy and AFM analysis. Defect induced Raman shifts were observed in the samples. Magnetic studies revealed an increase in magnetic properties for films doped with 10 at% Fe doped samples.