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Application of Ag–ceramic composite electrodes to low firing piezoelectric multilayer ceramic actuators

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Ag–ceramic composite materials were investigated as low-cost internal electrodes for low firing piezoelectric multilayer ceramic actuators (MLCA). Ag–ceramic pastes were prepared by adding Pb(Mg1/3Nb2/3)O3–Pb(Zr0.475,Ti0.525)O3 (PMNZT) ceramic powders to a commercial Ag paste in the range of 0 to 50 wt.%. PMNZT/Ag–PMNZT multilayered laminates were fabricated using tape casting and subsequently cofired at 925°C for 10 h. The addition of PMNZT into Ag electrode decreased the thermal shrinkage mismatch between the composite layers, which led to improve mass producibility of MLCA through reducing delamination probability during cofiring process.

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This research was supported by a grant from Center for Advanced Materials Processing of 21st Century Frontier R & D Program funded by the Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Energy (MOCIE), Republic of Korea. Also this work was partly supported by the Ministry of Education and Human Resources Development (MOE), the MOCIE and the Ministry of Labor(MOLAB) through the fostering project of the Lab of Excellency.

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  1. School of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Ulsan, P.O. Box 18, Nam-Ulsan, 680-749, South Korea

    Mun-Seok Choi, Sung-Hoon Kim, Young-Hyeok Kim & Jae-Shin Lee

  2. Department of Physics, University of Ulsan, Nam-Ulsan, South Korea

    Ill Won Kim

  3. Electric and Magnetic Devices Group, KERI, Changwon, South Korea

    Soon-Jong Jeong & Jae-Sung Song

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Choi, MS., Kim, SH., Kim, YH. et al. Application of Ag–ceramic composite electrodes to low firing piezoelectric multilayer ceramic actuators. J Electroceram 20, 225–229 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10832-007-9181-8

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