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MATERIALS & DESIGN
Volume 130, Issue -, Pages 479-487Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.matdes.2017.05.086
Keywords
BaTi4O9; Relaxation; Defect; TSDC; TiO6 octahedron
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [51472138]
- China Postdoctoral Science Foundation [2016M601047]
- Ministry of Science and Technology of China through 973-Project [2015CB654605]
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Relaxation phenomena in dielectrics are well known to be closely related to their defect chemistry. However, the relaxation behavior of microwave dielectrics has seldom been considered, despite these materials being an important member of the electroceramic family. Here, the relaxation behavior of the typical microwave dielectric ceramic barium tetratitanate (BaTi4O9) was investigated. Significant thermally stimulated relaxation was observed in both dielectric spectroscopy and thermally stimulated depolarization current (TSDC) measurements, and the correlation between relaxation and defect behavior was addressed. TSDC characterization revealed that defect dipoles [(Ti-Ti')-(V-O(center dot center dot))] with activation energies (E-a) of 0.32-0.36 eV appeared at low temperature, while in-grain and across-grain boundary oxygen vacancies (V-O(center dot center dot)) appeared at higher temperature, yielding Ea of 0.30-0.48 eV and 0.65-1.01 eV, respectively. It was further believed that these two types of defects, (Ti-Ti')-(V-O(center dot center dot)) and V-O(center dot center dot), were correspondingly responsible for the dielectric relaxation observed at low and high temperature. The relaxation behavior of several typical Ti-containing microwave dielectrics, such as BaTi4O9, TiO2, MgTiO3 and Ca0.8Sr0.2TiO3, was compared, which suggests that microwave dielectric performance and defect behavior are closely related to the connections of TiO6 octahedra in the materials. [GRAPHICS] .
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