High-performance X8R dielectric materials could be sintered at 1150°C by doping calcium borosilicate (CBS) glass ceramic into
the BaTiO
3-Nb
2O
5-ZnO system, with a dielectric constant greater than 1800 and a dielectric loss lower than 1.0%. The effects of CBS, Nb
2O
5, and ZnO on the dielectric properties were discussed in this article. The X8R specification was achieved with the content
of CBS ≥ 4 wt.%, Nb
2O
5 ≥ 1.0 mol%, and ZnO ≤ 2.0 mol%. The sample doped with 4 wt.% CBS exhibited the highest density and lowest dielectric loss
in our experiment. A reduction in grain size was observed in the specimens with 4 and 7 wt.% CBS as compared with CBS-free
specimen, whereas the abnormal growth of rectangle-shaped grains took place in the 10 wt.% CBS-doped specimen. The Curie point
progressively moved to higher temperatures with CBS content up to 7 wt.%. However,
T
c of the sample decreased slightly in the case when 10 wt.% CBS was doped. X-ray diffraction (XRD) analysis indicated that
the crystal structure of sintered ceramics changed from tetragonal to pseudocubic symmetry as increasing CBS content.
Keywords Barium titanate - X8R - calcium borosilicate - dielectric properties