TY - GEN
T1 - Kinetics of oxygen diffusion into multilayer ceramic capacitors during the re-oxidation process and its implications on dielectric properties
AU - Kaneda, Kazumi
AU - Mizuno, Youichi
AU - Donnelly, Niall J.
AU - Lee, Soonil
AU - Qu, Weiguo
AU - Randall, Clive A.
PY - 2011/7/26
Y1 - 2011/7/26
N2 - Re-oxidation is an important thermal process to minimize oxygen vacancies and produce high reliable Ni-MLCCs. The re-oxidation of these devices is then investigated with a series of "in-situ" impedance measurements between 400 and 500 °C in air. From the relative impedance change, chemical diffusion coefficients, associated activation energy and effective equivalent circuit model are determined. Those values were found to be reasonable compared with previous researchers' data. Moreover, the proposed effective equivalent circuit model successfully represents the real Ni-MLCC morphology. From transmission electron microscopy (TEM) and electron energy loss spectroscopy (EELS), it is found that the electrical properties and reliabilities of the Ni-MLCCs re-oxidized under different conditions are identical.
AB - Re-oxidation is an important thermal process to minimize oxygen vacancies and produce high reliable Ni-MLCCs. The re-oxidation of these devices is then investigated with a series of "in-situ" impedance measurements between 400 and 500 °C in air. From the relative impedance change, chemical diffusion coefficients, associated activation energy and effective equivalent circuit model are determined. Those values were found to be reasonable compared with previous researchers' data. Moreover, the proposed effective equivalent circuit model successfully represents the real Ni-MLCC morphology. From transmission electron microscopy (TEM) and electron energy loss spectroscopy (EELS), it is found that the electrical properties and reliabilities of the Ni-MLCCs re-oxidized under different conditions are identical.
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U2 - 10.4028/www.scientific.net/KEM.485.43
DO - 10.4028/www.scientific.net/KEM.485.43
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:79960572455
SN - 9783037851821
T3 - Key Engineering Materials
SP - 43
EP - 46
BT - Electroceramics in Japan XIV
T2 - 30th Electronics Division Meeting of the Ceramic Society of Japan
Y2 - 29 October 2010 through 30 October 2010
ER -