Patent ID: 8557697

Claim:
A method of forming a metal-containing layer on a substrate, the method comprising: providing a vapor comprising at least one titanium precursor compound; providing a vapor comprising at least one metal-organic strontium precursor compound; and contacting the vapor comprising the at least one titanium precursor compound and the vapor comprising the at least one strontium precursor compound with a substrate to form a SrTiO 3 -containing material on at least one surface of the substrate using an atomic layer deposition process comprising multiple atomic layer deposition cycles, wherein the multiple deposition cycles comprises a plurality of strontium oxide atomic layer deposition cycles and a plurality of titanium oxide atomic layer deposition cycles, the plurality of titanium oxide atomic layer deposition cycles being greater in number than the plurality of strontium oxide atomic layer deposition cycles and resulting in the SrTiO 3 -containing material having a strontium:titanium atomic ratio of from 0.9:1.0 to 1.0:0.9, the multiple deposition cycles comprising multiple sets of consecutive strontium oxide atomic layer deposition cycles alternating with consecutive titanium oxide atomic layer deposition cycles.