Fianite or yttrium stabilized zirconia (YSZ) solid solutions single crystals were known worldwide as jewelry material. The review is devoted to novel applications of the material in the field of microelectronics. A number of modern aspects of the application of fianite in micro-, opto- and SHF-electronics were analyzed in this paper. It was demonstrated that fianite is an extremely promising multipurpose material for new electronic technologies due to unique combination of physical and chemical properties. As a substrate and buffer layer for the epitaxy of Si, Ge, GeSi and AIIIBV compounds (GaAs, InGaAs, GaSb, InAs, GaN, AlN), fianite has a number of advantages over the other dielectric materials. The use of fianite (as well as ZrO2 and HfO2 oxides) instead of SiO2 as gate dielectrics in CMOC technology seems to be of peculiar interest. The unique properties of fianite as protecting, stabilizing and antireflecting coatings in electronics and optoelectronic devices have been outlined. A comparative study of the performance characteristics of fianite and conventional materials has been carried out. 1. Introduction The further progress in electronics is connected with application of new materials. Fianite is a material of such a kind. Industrial technology of synthesis of fianite has been for the first time developed in Russia in the Lebedev Physical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences (FIAN in Russian), so the crystals were entitled after the Institute [1]. Serial production of the crystals has been already started in the early seventies of the twentieth century. Currently, fianite crystals are in the second position by the volume of worldwide production following silicon [2, 3]. Fianite single crystals, -zirconia-based solid solutions (or “yttrium stabilized zirconia” YSZ), were known as jewelry stone imitation materials. Recently, in the countries with the developed microelectronics a significant growth of interest to various aspects of fianite application in semiconductor technologies has been observed. Fianite is an extremely promising multipurpose material for new optoelectronics technologies due to its unique combination of physical and chemical properties. It can be used in, virtually, all of the main technological stages of the production of electronic devices (Figure 1). Figure 1: Application of fianite in electronics. A number of application prospects of fianite in modern electronics are considered in this paper. 2. Fianite as a Substrate and Buffer Layer for Epitaxy of Semiconductors, Multilayer Heterostructures, and Superlattices
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