Photo-assisted metal-organic chemical vapor deposition of CaCu3Ti4O12 (CCTO) thin films

Calcium copper titanate (CaCu3Ti4O12) or CCTO is one of the most researched giant dielectric constant materials in recent years. In the present work, incoherent light source based photo-assisted metal-organic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD) has been used to prepare CCTO thin films on Si/SiO2 substrates. Key to this unique processing technique is the use of UV radiation as an additional source of energy in conjunction to the thermal energy. The given Photo-assisted MOCVD processing resulted in polycrystalline CCTO growth on a SiO2 surface. Powder X-ray diffraction and scanning electron microscopy were performed to analyze structural and compositional properties of the CCTO thin film. Ellipsometric measurements indicated a refractive index of 3.03 for the CCTO thin film.