Structural and electrical properties of polycrystalline PbZr0.5Ti0.5O3 films deposited on La0.5Sr0.5CoO3 coated silicon by sol-gel process

La0.5Sr0.5CoO3 (LSCO) films have been grown on Si (100) by a metalorganic chemical liquid deposition (MOCLD) technique using lanthanum acetate, strontium acetate and cobalt acetate as the starting materials. Subsequent PbZr0.5Ti0.5O3 (PZT) films were deposited onto LSCO films by a modified sol-gel method. Field-emission scanning electron microscopy and X-ray diffraction analysis show that PZT and LSCO films are polycrystalline and entirely perovskite phase. At an applied electric field of 250 kV/cm, the Pt/PZT/LSCO capacitor shows no polarization fatigue after 3 x 10(9) switching cycles and an internal electric field; the remnant polarization P-r and the coercive field E-c are about 22 muC/cm(2) and 73 kV/cm, respectively. The dielectric constant of PZT films is 650 at a frequency of 1 kHz.