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Ferroelectric barium titanate (BaTiO3) ceramics and thin films have been prepared from barium acetate (Ba(CH3COO)2) and titanium (IV) isopropoxied (Ti((CH3)2CHO)4) precursors by a sol–gel technique. The as-grown powder and thin films were found to be amorphous, which crystallized to the tetragonal phase after annealing at 700°C in air for 1 h. Both the ceramics and thin films showed well-saturated polarization–field (P–E) hysteresis loops at room temperature. The value of the spontaneous polarization, PS, remnant polarization, Pr, and coercive field, Ec, of the ceramics and thin films determined from the P–E hysteresis loop were found to be 19.0 and 12.6; 14.0 and 3.2 μG cm−2, and 30 and 53 kV cm−1, respectively. The coercive field of the film determined from the capacitance–voltage, C–V, characteristics is slightly lower than that determined from the P–E hysteresis loop (43 kV cm−1). The room-temperature dielectric constant, ε, of the ceramics and films was found to be 1135 and 370, respectively. Both the films and ceramics showed dielectric anomaly peaks at 125 °C, showing ferroelectric to paraelectric phase transition. © 1998 Kluwer Academic Publishers
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Sharma, H.B., Mansingh, A. Sol-gel processed barium titanate ceramics and thin films. Journal of Materials Science 33, 4455–4459 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1004576315328
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