화학공학소재연구정보센터
Thin Solid Films, Vol.563, 36-39, 2014
Miniaturized notch antenna based on lanthanum titanium perovskite oxide thin films
This paper presents the integration of a dielectric lanthanum titanium oxide compound as thin film in a discrete capacitive component operating at microwaves. The integration in a notch antenna of a MIM (Metal/Insulator/Metal) structure based on this oxide material is numerically and experimentally studied. Oxide films are deposited by reactive magnetron RF sputtering of an La2Ti2O7 target. The films are composed of an unusual phase: the orthorhombic La2Ti2O7 compound, with a textured growth on Pt/Si and Pt/SrTiO3 substrates. Moderate dielectric constant values (Epsilon around 60) and low loss (Tan Delta lower than 0.005) are obtained at 1 GHz. Inserting this original MIM capacitor in the antenna structure results in a shift to a lower value of its operating frequency. This shift, from 885 MHz to 317 MHz, corresponds to a significant size reduction of 64.2%. The measured values are confronted with simulation obtained by numerical software. (C) 2014 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.