An approach to fabricate Ba0.5Sr0.5TiO3 (BST) films with a preferred orientation
on a glass substrate by pulsed laser deposition was developed. To
ensure a preferred crystallographic orientation, we utilized a molecularly
thin Ca2Nb3O10 perovskite nanosheet
as a seed layer and successfully fabricated BST films with a nearly
perfect (100)-axis orientation. The 100 nm films after annealing at
450 °C in air showed a good dielectric performance (εr > 400), which was comparable to the εr value of epitaxially grown films with the same thickness. These
results indicate that the nanosheet seed layer plays a crucial role
in controlled film growth, realizing a nearly intrinsic performance
of BST.