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Colossal permittivity, low dielectric loss, and good thermal stability achieved in Ta-doped BaTiO3 by B-site defect engineering

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High-performance colossal permittivity (ε′ > 104) plays an indispensable role in the development of electronic field. In this work, ultra-high dielectric permittivity (ε′ > 237, 294 @1 kHz) and low dielectric loss (0.012 @1 kHz) were simultaneously achieved in Ta-doped BaTi0.995Ta0.005O3 ceramics. Importantly, the dielectric permittivity changes less than 15% between − 55 and 200 °C, and the dielectric loss is less than 0.04. The excellent giant dielectric performance is related to the defect dipoles of electronic pins associated with electrons/oxygen vacancies/Ti3+, which are generated by B-site donor. And the thermal-activated short-range hopping of electrons is conformed to be the origin of low dielectric losses and excellent thermal stability. This work provides a strategy for achieving ultra-high dielectric permittivity, low dielectric loss, and excellent temperature stability of Ta-doped BaTiO3 simultaneously through B-site defect engineering.

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Funding

This work was financially supported by the Key Research and Development Program of Shandong Province (2022CXGC020203), the Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 12264012, 62271362，12162011，12304120), the Science and Technology Plan of Guangxi (Nos. AA21238001, AA21077012, AA22068080, AA23023027l，GA245006, ZY22096019, and ZY20198017), Young Elite Scientists Sponsorship Program by CAST (Grant No. 2021QNRC001) , the Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong Province (No. 2022A1515111013) and the Science and Technology Plan of Guilin (2022H03 and ZY20220101).

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  1. Guangxi Key Lab of Optical and Electronic Functional Materials and Devices, College of Materials Science and Engineering, Guilin University of Technology, Guilin, 541004, China

    Chu Huang, Yingzhi Meng, Chenlin Li, Xiuyun Lei, Yufang Shen & Laijun Liu

  2. School of Microelectronics and State Key Laboratory for Mechanical Behavior of Materials, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, 710049, China

    Dawei Wang

  3. Guangxi Key Laboratory of Information Materials and School of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, Guilin University of Electronic Technology, Guilin, 541004, China

    Xue Chen & Lixian Sun

  4. School of Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology, Xidian University, Xi’an, 710071, China

    Biaolin Peng

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Huang, C., Meng, Y., Li, C. et al. Colossal permittivity, low dielectric loss, and good thermal stability achieved in Ta-doped BaTiO3 by B-site defect engineering. J Mater Sci: Mater Electron 34, 2231 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10854-023-11623-z

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