We have grown epitaxial Al/Al
2O
3 multilayer structure on Si (111) substrates by the ionized cluster beam (ICB) method. The crystallinity and electrical properties were investigated for the multilayer structure. In situ observation of RHEED patterns for Al and Al
2O
3 layers of the multilayer structure showed that epitaxial growth of Al on Al
2O
3 and of Al
2O
3 on Al was achieved, and the interface between Al and Al
2O
3 layers was flat. In addition, the experimental and theoretical results on the electrical properties showed that a tunneling current was observed and the breakdown field was 5×10
7 V/cm, when the Al
2O
3 thickness was a few monolayers.
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