Sintering Behaviors, Microstructure, and Microwave Dielectric Properties of CaTiO3-LaAlO3 Ceramics Using CuO/B2O3 Additions

Min-Hang Weng; Chihng-Tsung Liauh; Shueei-Muh Lin; Hung-Hsiang Wang; Ru-Yuan Yang

doi:10.3390/ma12244187

Sintering Behaviors, Microstructure, and Microwave Dielectric Properties of CaTiO₃-LaAlO₃ Ceramics Using CuO/B₂O₃ Additions

Materials (Basel). 2019 Dec 13;12(24):4187. doi: 10.3390/ma12244187.

Authors

Min-Hang Weng¹, Chihng-Tsung Liauh^{2

3}, Shueei-Muh Lin², Hung-Hsiang Wang², Ru-Yuan Yang⁴

Affiliations

¹ School of Information Engineering, Putian University, Putian 351100, China.
² Institute of Mechanical Engineering, Kun Shan University, Tainan 710, Taiwan.
³ Green Energy Technology Center, Kun Shan University, Tainan 710, Taiwan.
⁴ Graduate Institute of Materials Engineering, National Pingtung University of Science and Technology, Pingtung County 912, Taiwan.

Abstract

The effect of CuO/B₂O₃ additions on the sintering behaviors, microstructures, and microwave dielectric properties of 0.95LaAlO₃-0.05CaTiO₃ ceramics is investigated. It is found that the sintering temperatures are lowered efficiently from 1600 °C to 1350 °C, as 1 wt % CuO, 1 wt % B₂O₃, and 0.5 wt % CuO +0.5 wt % B₂O₃ are used as the sintering aids due to the appearance of the liquid phase sintering. The microwave dielectric properties of 0.95LaAlO₃-0.05CaTiO₃ ceramics with the sintering aid additions are strongly related to the densification and the microstructure of the sintered ceramics. At the sintering temperature of 1300 °C, the 0.95LaAlO₃-0.05CaTiO₃ ceramic with 0.5 wt % CuO + 0.5 wt % B₂O₃ addition shows the best dielectric properties, including a dielectric constant (ε_r) of 21, approximate quality factor (Q × f) of 22,500 GHz, and a temperature coefficient of the resonant frequency (τ_f) of -3 ppm/°C.

Keywords: ceramics; density; dielectric properties; microwave.