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Ultra-thin Al2O3−Sr(1−x)GdxTiO3 composite ceramics with high microwave absorption performance

Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Electronics volume 32, pages 8788–8797 (2021)Cite this article

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Gadolinium (Gd)-doped perovskite SrTiO3 combining with Al2O3, Al2O3−Sr(1−x)GdxTiO3 (x varying from 0 to 0.3 in steps of 0.1) composite ceramics was synthesized by hot-press sintering in a vacuum. X-ray diffraction (XRD), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), energy-dispersive spectrometer (EDS), four-probe testing instrument, and vector network analyzer were utilized to study their phase and composition characteristics, micromorphology, electrical conductivity, electromagnetic and microwave-absorbing properties, respectively. The XRD, SEM, and EDS results demonstrated that Gd atoms were successfully doped into SrTiO3 crystal and substituted the Sr sites. As a result, Al2O3−Sr(1−x)GdxTiO3 with x = 0.2, which has the advantage of an ultra-thin thickness (0.341 mm), exhibits excellent absorbing properties with a broad bandwidth (90% microwave absorption) of 4.07 GHz in the X band. Furthermore, the present investigation illustrated that Al2O3−Sr(1−x)GdxTiO3 (x = 0.1, 0.2, and 0.3) could be applied in the X band for microwave absorption, with broadband width and ultra-thin thickness (≤ 0.35 mm), by controlling the molar ratios of Gd and the thickness.

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This work was financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 51701148) and Natural Science Foundation of Shaanxi Province (Grant Nos. 2019JQ-916 and 2020JQ-912).

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  1. School of Materials Engineering, Xi’an Aeronautical University, Xi’an, 710077, People’s Republic of China

    Yingying Zhou, Chaoqun Yang, Dan Chen, Yuanyuan Lu & Hui Xie

  2. No. 207 Faculty, Xi’an Research Institute of High Technology, Xi’an, 710025, People’s Republic of China

    Rong Li

  3. State Key Laboratory of Solidification Processing, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an, 710072, People’s Republic of China

    Zhaowen Ren

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Zhou, Y., Yang, C., Li, R. et al. Ultra-thin Al2O3−Sr(1−x)GdxTiO3 composite ceramics with high microwave absorption performance. J Mater Sci: Mater Electron 32, 8788–8797 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10854-021-05550-0

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