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MO3 (M = Mo, W) or VI-VI binary compounds are important semiconducting oxides that show great promise for a variety of applications. In an effort to tune and enhance their properties in a systematic manner we have applied a designing strategy to deliberately introduce organic linker molecules in these perovskite-like crystal lattices. This approach has led to a wealth of new hybrid structures built on one-dimensional (1D) and two-dimensional (2D) VI-VI modules. The hybrid semiconductors exhibit a number of greatly improved properties and new functionality, including broad band gap tunability, negative thermal expansion, largely reduced thermal conductivity, and significantly enhanced dielectric constant compared to their MO3 parent phases.
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We have studied the effect of deposition parameters on the microstructure, crystallinity, and ferroelectric properties of 0.88(Bi(0.5)Na(0.5))TiO(3)-0.08(Bi(0.5)K(0.5))TiO(3)¿0.04BaTiO(3) thin films grown on SrRuO(3)-coated SrTiO(3) substrates by pulsed laser deposition. The parameters studied were the repetition rates, substrate temperatures, oxygen pressures, and laser energies. It was realized that the films prepared at 800°C, 10 Hz, 400 mtorr, and 1.2 Jcm(-2) exhibited the highest ferroelectric properties. The measured remanent polarization, dielectric constant at 1 kHz, and coercive field for this film were about 30 µCcm(-2), 645, and 85 kVcm(-1), respectively. Increasing the oxygen pressure during deposition from 200 to 400 mtorr improved the crystallinity, microstructure, dielectric constant, and polarization of the films. The leakage current and dielectric loss were suppressed at 400 mtorr because of the lower concentration of oxygen vacancies and disappearing pinholes and surface undulations in the film deposited at this pressure.