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ABi2Nb2O9 (A = Ca2+, Sr2+, Ba2+) were prepared by using an aqueous solution method from the mixture of water-soluble M-EDTA (M = Ca2+, Sr2+, Ba2+), Bi-EDTA, Nb-tartarate and TEA as the starting materials. A black fluffy mass resulted on heating the solution mixture at ∼200 °C. X-ray powder diffraction (XRD) showed that a single phase with the layered perovskite structure was formed after calcining the black fluffy mass at 600 °C. No intermediate phase was found during heat treatment at and above 600 °C. The particle size obtained from TEM lay between 20 and 30 nm. Structural electron microscopy (SEM) revealed that the average grain size after sintering at 900 °C for 4 h ranges from 1.2 to 1.67 μm with a relative compact density of ≥90%. A comparative study on dielectric constant and corresponding tangent loss were carried out at 1 kHz, 100 kHz, 1 MHz, and 5 MHz from which the Curie temperature (T c) was found to be at 935, 450, and 170 °C with peak dielectric constants at 930, 595, and 545, respectively, for CBN (CaBi2Nb2O9), SBN (SrBi2Nb2O9), and BBN (BaBi2Nb2O9) measured at frequency 100 kHz with very low tangent loss.
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Dhak, D., Dhak, P., Ghorai, T. et al. Preparation of nano-sized ABi2Nb2O9 (A = Ca2+, Sr2+, Ba2+) ferroelectric ceramics by soluble Nb(V) tartarate precursor and their dielectric characteristics after sintering. J Mater Sci: Mater Electron 19, 448–456 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10854-007-9361-y
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