Skip Navigation

This Article
Right arrow Full Text (PDF)
Right arrow Alert me when this article is cited
Right arrow Alert me if a correction is posted
Services
Right arrow Email this article to a friend
Right arrow Similar articles in this journal
Right arrow Alert me to new issues of the journal
Right arrow Add to My Personal Archive
Right arrow Download to citation manager
Right arrowRequest Permissions
Google Scholar
Right arrow Articles by Lim, S.-H.
Right arrow Articles by Shindo, D.
Right arrow Search for Related Content
PubMed
Right arrow Articles by Lim, S.-H.
Right arrow Articles by Shindo, D.
Social Bookmarking
Add to CiteULike   Add to Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us  
What's this?

Journal of Electron Microscopy 51:S165-S169 (2002)
© 2002 Oxford University Press

Full-length paper

High-resolution electron microscopy of stacking faults in heteroepitaxial ZnO/LiTaO3

Sung-Hwan Lim1,* and Daisuke Shindo2

1Materials Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA and
2Institute of Multidisciplinary Research for Advanced Materials, Tohoku University, Sendai 980-8577, Japan

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: shlim{at}mrl.ucsb.edu

The structural analyses of the defects for ZnO films on (01&1macr;2) r-plane LiTaO3 substrate were carried out using electron diffraction, high-resolution electron microscopy (HREM), and image simulations. The epitaxial relationship was found to be [0001]ZnO||[0&1macr;11]LiTaO3 and (11&2macr;0)ZnO|| (01&1macr;2)LiTaO3. The dominant defects observed in the ZnO films were characterized as the type I1 intrinsic stacking faults with the displacement vector (a/6)[20&2macr;3], leading to a local zinc-blende structure in the wurtzite ZnO matrix. HREM studies show that stacking faults in the ZnO film may be formed to accommodate tilting of the films as required to maintain a particular epitaxial relationship with respect to the substrate.

Keywords     high-resolution electron microscopy, computer simulation, ZnO, stacking fault


Add to CiteULike CiteULike   Add to Connotea Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us Del.icio.us    What's this?




Disclaimer:
Please note that abstracts for content published before 1996 were created through digital scanning and may therefore not exactly replicate the text of the original print issues. All efforts have been made to ensure accuracy, but the Publisher will not be held responsible for any remaining inaccuracies. If you require any further clarification, please contact our Customer Services Department.