Characteristics of low-temperature-prepared (Ba,Sr)TiO/sub 3/ films post treated by novel excimer laser annealing

Thin (Ba/sub 0.5/Sr/sub 0.5/)TiO/sub 3/ (BST) films were sputtered on Pt/TiN/Ti/Si multilayer substrates at very low temperature (150/spl deg/C). A novel process, using wavelength 248-nm KrF excimer laser annealing (ELA), has been undertaken to implement barium strontium titanate (BST) films at a low process temperature of 300/spl deg/C. The crystallinity and dielectric constant are greatly improved after ELA treatment. In this work, the variation of texture was investigated. Besides, the escaped oxygen atoms from BST films were detected in-situ using a residual gas analyzer (RGA) during ELA process. Thus, the degradation of upper surface is strongly influenced by the laser energy fluence for an ELA-BST film.