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Strategies for low-temperature sintering of BST ceramics with attractive dielectric properties

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In this study, the powders of the Ba0.75Sr0.25TiO3 (BST) nanoparticles were directly synthesized by milling of Ba(OH)2·8H2O, Sr(OH)2·8H2O, and Ti(BuO)4 in ethanol at room temperature. They have homogenous grains of ~ 15 nm and high sintering activity. The dense ceramics with the density > 90% can be obtained at a sintering temperature of ≤ 950 °C by adding 3 wt% sintering aids of Bi2O3 and Li2CO3. Several Bi-related intermediate compounds act as perovskite-structured templates to sintering the ceramics at a different temperature. They enhance the mass transfer and promote the sintering densification. These compounds such as Ba2BiO4 and SrBiO4 appear at 800 °C, LiBa4Bi3O11 and Sr1.2Bi0.8O3 appear over 830 °C, and Bi8.11Ba0.89O13.05 appears at 950 °C. The cation Bi in them can have mixture valences of 3+ and 5+. It makes the ceramics as semiconducting state with the dark gray color and decreases the ceramic resistivities. With the sintering temperature increase, especially at 950 °C, the cation Bi tends back to single valence of +3 in the ceramics. The most of alkaline earth cations in Bi-related compounds will release and resorb into the lattice of BST and drive the sintering densification. The BST ceramics can have a peak dielectric constant > 6500 (at 53 °C) with loss < 0.025 at 10 kHz, and resistivity > 1012 Ω cm when sintered at a temperature of ≥ 900 °C with 3 wt% sintering aids. They have a potential application for multiple layer ceramic capacitors (MLCC) with silver inner electrodes.

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    Jianquan Qi, Tianchi Yu, Mengying Li, Jiahui Xie, Cunle Bo, Hang Zhu, He Liu, Hengchang Wang, Yuxi Xie, Yilin Liu & Xiumei Han

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Qi, J., Yu, T., Li, M. et al. Strategies for low-temperature sintering of BST ceramics with attractive dielectric properties. J Mater Sci: Mater Electron 32, 21326–21336 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10854-021-06635-6

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