Enhanced sintering and nonlinear dielectric properties of Ba0.6Sr0.4TiO3 ceramics with a small amount of lithium additive

Authors

  • Xiao-Fei Zhang School of Materials Science and Engineering, Wuhan University of Technology; School of Mathematics and Physics, Hubei Polytechnic University
  • Xiao-Bin Xie School of Materials Science and Engineering, Wuhan University of Technology; School of Materials Science and Energy Engineering, Foshan University
  • Qing Xu School of Materials Science and Engineering, Wuhan University of Technology
  • Min Chen School of Materials Science and Energy Engineering, Foshan University
  • Dong-Chu Chen School of Materials Science and Energy Engineering, Foshan University
  • Duan-Ping Huang School of Materials Science and Engineering, Wuhan University of Technology
  • Feng Zhang School of Materials Science and Engineering, Wuhan University of Technology

Abstract

The powders with the nominal compositions of Ba0.6Sr0.4TiO3+x wt.% Li2CO3 (x=0 and x=1.0) were synthesized by a citrate precursor method. The sintering behavior, structure and dielectric properties of the ceramic specimens were investigated. Compared with the lithium-free specimen (x=0), the lithium-added specimen (x=1.0) showed appreciably enhanced sintering properties, achieving a relative density of 96.0% after sintering at 900 °C. The enhanced sintering properties were related to a liquid-phase sintering mechanism. The origin of the liquid-phase was explained. The effects of the liquid-phase on the densification progress of the lithium-added specimen in different sintering stages were elucidated. The lithium addition was found to be beneficial to the nonlinear dielectric properties. The ceramic specimen with x=1.0 exhibited a figure-of-merit of 106 under a bias electric field of 20 kV/cm, higher by ~60% than the value (67) for the specimen with x=0.

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2019-07-03

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Vol. 51 No. 3 (2019)

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