Volume 36, Number 10, 1389-1394, DOI: 10.1007/s11664-007-0233-2

A Novel Approach to BaTiO3-based X8R Ceramics by Calcium Borosilicate Glass Ceramic Doping

Min Du, Yanrong Li, Ying Yuan, Shuren Zhang and Bin Tang

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Abstract

High-performance X8R dielectric materials could be sintered at 1150°C by doping calcium borosilicate (CBS) glass ceramic into the BaTiO3-Nb2O5-ZnO system, with a dielectric constant greater than 1800 and a dielectric loss lower than 1.0%. The effects of CBS, Nb2O5, and ZnO on the dielectric properties were discussed in this article. The X8R specification was achieved with the content of CBS ≥ 4 wt.%, Nb2O5 ≥ 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

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