Thermodynamic and electrical effects of residual carbon in glass-barium titanate composites for MLCC applications

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Abstract

The thermodynamic and electrical effects of residual carbon in glass-barium titanate composites were investigated. Thermodynamic arguments are made suggesting that new phases form through carbothermal reactions between carbon and titanate-based dielectrics. Experimentally, it was shown that the reduced dielectric separated by insulating glass in the grain boundaries gave rise to a dielectric relaxation at room temperature consistent with the Maxwell-Wagner model. The conductivity of the dielectric was calculated based on the relaxation frequencies, allowing an estimate of the local oxygen activity due to the presence of carbon. This activity was consistent with the equilibrium oxygen activity for carbon oxidation at the processing temperature, and eight orders of magnitude different from the oxygen activity in the furnace atmosphere.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)2415-2419
Number of pages5
JournalJournal of the American Ceramic Society
Volume90
Issue number8
DOIs
StatePublished - Aug 2007

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Ceramics and Composites
  • Materials Chemistry

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