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This paper presents an experimental study of the pyrochlore-to-perovskite phase transition in ferroelectric lead zirconate titanate (PZT) films grown on silicon substrates by rf magnetron sputtering and annealed in air or in an inert (argon) atmosphere at temperatures of up to 600°C and atmospheric pressure. Simultaneous thermal analysis results demonstrate that annealing in air leads to release of the latent heat of the phase transition, which is due to the conversion of lead oxide to lead orthoplumbate in the bulk of the PZT film. This transition is accompanied by changes in the densities of the perovskite phase and parent (pyrochlore) phase. In this case, the possibility of phase transformation should be ensured by changes in the volume of the system. The change in the volume of the film leads to the formation of micropores in the bulk of thin PZT films. The micropore size has been determined by scanning electron microscopy, and the phase composition of the films has been assessed by X-ray diffraction. We present experimental evidence that micropore nucleation and growth at the interface between the new and old phases in thin PZT films is due to the difference in density between these phases.
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Original Russian Text © I.Yu. Tentilova, E.Yu. Kaptelov, I.P. Pronin, V.L. Ugolkov, 2012, published in Neorganicheskie Materialy, 2012, Vol. 48, No. 11, pp. 1269–1273.
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Tentilova, I.Y., Kaptelov, E.Y., Pronin, I.P. et al. Micropore formation in lead zirconate titanate films. Inorg Mater 48, 1136–1140 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0020168512110155
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