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Design of a BaO–Al2O3–SiO2–B2O3 glass-ceramic for microwave LTCC substrate material based on glass-ceramic + ceramic composite

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BaO–Al2O3–SiO2–B2O3 (BASB) glass-ceramic designed to replace the glass additive in traditional glass + ceramic composite system as LTCC material has been investigated. The influence of additive amount of glass former B2O3, network modifier BaO and network intermediate Al2O3 on the thermodynamic properties of BASB glass-ceramics is studied. The results show that the increase of both B2O3 and BaO can lower the softening and crystallization temperatures of the glass-ceramic. At the same time, the increase of BaO content leads to the reduction in sintering shrinkage rate. The addition of Al2O3 can decrease the crystallization temperature, but the softening temperature will exhibit a complicated variation of decreasing at first and then rising. Based on the aforementioned results, an optimum BASB glass-ceramic consisting of 13 mol% B2O3, 24 mol% BaO, 12 mol% Al2O3, 50 mol% SiO2, 1 mol% ZrO2 and 1 mol% Li2O is produced, with the softening temperature of 650 °C, main crystalline phase of BaAl2Si2O8 after being sintered at 850 °C and the crystallization activation energy of 292.25 kJ/mol. The received glass-ceramic is then employed as sintering aid to fabricate low-temperature-sintered BASB glass-ceramic + Al2O3 ceramic composite. The 55 wt.% BASB + 45 wt.% Al2O3 composite sintered at 850 °C shows attractive comprehensive properties with a density of 2.79 g/cm3, dielectric constant of 5.88@10 GHz and dielectric loss of 1.54 × 10–3@10 GHz, which makes it a good candidate for microwave LTCC substrate application.

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This work was supported by the Natural Science Foundation of Hunan Province of China (Grant No. 2018JJ3602).

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Mao, H., Wang, F., Zhu, X. et al. Design of a BaO–Al2O3–SiO2–B2O3 glass-ceramic for microwave LTCC substrate material based on glass-ceramic + ceramic composite. J Mater Sci: Mater Electron 33, 24834–24844 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10854-022-09194-6

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