Development of Barium Titanate Single Layer Thin Film Capacitors

Discrete electrical components such as capacitors, resistors, resonators, and inductors are still soldered onto the surfaces. The next generation of technology will be to integrate these components into or onto a low temperature co-fired ceramic substrate (LTCC). The objective of this work is to develop thin film sputtering techniques that will yield single layer capacitors directly on top of a LTCC substrate. It is desirable to minimize the size of the capacitor by increasing the K or decreasing the thickness. At the same time the dielectric must have a high insulation resistance. The capacitors were made from 50 nm nickel electrodes and a 300nm BaTiO3 dielectric. A physical mask of 74um x 74 um was used to increase the number of viable test points. The yield for positive test points was approximately 61%. A positive test point has a high resistance, approximately 109-10Ω