K. Sakai et al., EPITAXIAL-GROWTH OF BI(2201) PHASE IN ATOMIC LAYER-BY-LAYER DEPOSITION BY ION-BEAM SPUTTERING METHOD, IEICE transactions on electronics, E76C(8), 1993, pp. 1246-1250
Bi2Sr2CuOx (Bi(2201)) thin films have been fabricated by atomic layer-
by-layer deposition using ion beam sputtering (IBS) method. During the
deposition, 14 wt%-ozone/oxygen mixture gas of typical pressure of 5.
0x10(-5) Torr is supplied with ultraviolet light irradiation for oxida
tion. XRD and RHEED investigations reveal that a buffer layer with com
positions different from Bi(2201) is formed at the early deposition st
age of less than 10 units cell and then Bi (220 1) oriented along the
c-axis is grown.