Coordination chemistry routes to films for superconducting electronics

This contribution surveys the design, synthesis, characterization, and implementation of volatile metal-organic coordination complexes for the MOCVD (metal-organic chemical vapor deposition) growth of thin films of high temperature superconductors, lattice-matched dielectrics, and electro-optic materials. The central focus is on fluorinated and fluorine-free β-diketonate and β-ketoiminate complexes. Target materials include the YBCO (YBa₂Cu₃O₇-ϟ), BSCCO (Bi₂Sr₂Can-lCu_nO₅+(2n-1)+δ) and TBCCO (Tl2Ba2Ca_n-lCun05+(2n-l)+8) superconducting phases as well as YAlO3, NdGaO₃, PrGaO₃, BaPbO₃, BaTiO₃, and Sr₂AlTaO₆.