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Effect of porosity and pore size distribution on the low-frequency dielectric response, in the range 0.01–100 kHz, in sintered ZrO2—8 mol% Y2O3 ceramic compacts have been investigated. Small-angle neutron scattering (SANS) technique has been employed to obtain the pore characteristics like pore size distribution, specific surface area etc. It has been observed that the real and the imaginary parts of the complex dielectric permittivity, for the specimens, depend not only on the porosity but also on the pore size distribution and pore morphology significantly. Unlike normal Debye relaxation process, where the loss tangent vis-à-vis the imaginary part of the dielectric constant shows a pronounced peak, in the present case the same increases at lower frequency region and an anomalous non-Debye type relaxation process manifests.
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Sen, D., Mahata, T., Patra, A.K. et al. Effect of porosity and pore morphology on the low-frequency dielectric response in sintered ZrO2—8 mol% Y2O3 ceramic compact. Pramana - J Phys 63, 309–314 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02704990
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