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Evidence for power-law frequency dependence of intrinsic dielectric response in the CaCu3Ti4O12

Publication Type

Journal Article

Authors

Tselev, A., C.M. Brooks, S.M. Anlage, H. Zheng, L. Salamanca-Riba, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, M.A. Subramanian

DOI

10.1103/PhysRevB.70.144101

Abstract

We investigated the dielectric response of CaCu3Ti 4O12 (CCTO) thin films grown epitaxially on LaAlO 3 (001) substrates by pulsed laser deposition. The dielectric response of the films was found to be strongly dominated by a power law in frequency, typical of materials with localized hopping charge carriers, in contrast to the Debye-like response of the bulk material. The film conductivity decreases with annealing in oxygen, and it suggests that oxygen deficit is a cause of the relatively high film conductivity. With increase of the oxygen content, the room temperature frequency response of the CCTO thin films changes from the response indicating the presence of some relatively low conducting capacitive layers to purely power law, and then toward a frequency independent response with a relative dielectric constant ε′ ∼ 102. The film conductance and dielectric response decrease upon decrease of the temperature, with dielectric response being dominated by the power-law frequency dependence. Below ∼80 K, the dielectric response of the films is frequency independent with ε′ close to 102. The results provide another piece of evidence for an extrinsic, Maxwell-Wagner type, origin of the colossal dielectric response of the bulk CCTO material, connected with electrical inhomogeneity of the bulk material.

Journal

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volume

Year of Publication

2004

ISSN

01631829

Notes

cited By 108

Research Areas

Ramesh Lab