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Thermal and electrical stability of ZnO varistors with glass additives

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Glasses in the PbO-B2O3-Al2O3-BaO-CaO-SiO2 system were employed as the dopant to ZnO varistors. The thermal stability of the varistor is enhanced with glass additives. The temperature coefficient of threshold field for the sample doped with 1 w/o glass (65 w/o PbO - 23 w/o B2O3 - 12 w/o SiO2) is 1 × 10-4/K as compared to 3.3 × 10-3/K for that of the undoped sample. The change in the temperature dependence of the field-current density characteristics is more related to the barrier height change than the refractory behavior of the glass employed. Heat treatment is very effective in recovering the degraded samples by providing the activation energy for the diffusion of Zn interstitials. The experimental results can be explained with a Schottky barrier model.

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  1. Institute of Electronics, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan

    Bi-Shiou Chiou

  2. Department of Materials Science and Engineering, National Tsing-Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan

    Tzuu-Chian Chen, Jeng-Jen Li & Jenq-Gong Duh

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Chiou, BS., Chen, TC., Li, JJ. et al. Thermal and electrical stability of ZnO varistors with glass additives. J. Electron. Mater. 19, 1339–1344 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02662822

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