Issue 94, 2016

Dielectric and ferroelectric behavior of an incipient ferroelectric Sr(1−3x/2)CexTiO3 novel solid solution

Abstract

Phase formation, chemical structure, microwave (MW) dielectric properties, and relaxor-to-ferroelectric phase transition behavior of a novel solid solution with Ce-doped, A-site SrTiO3 (Sr(1−3x/2)CexTiO3) ceramic sintered in nitrogen have been investigated. X-ray diffraction (XRD) showed that the samples with x ≤ 0.3 appeared cubic but exhibited splitting and superstructure reflections consistent with tetragonal (0.4 ≤ x ≤ 0.45) and orthorhombic (0.5 ≤ x ≤ 0.6) structures. Chemical structure analysis revealed that the addition of small amounts of ceria (x ≤ 0.3) promoted Ti3+ cation and oxygen vacancy Image ID:c6ra18717j-t1.gif. By contrast, the addition of large amounts of ceria (x ≥ 0.4) inhibited this process. Sr(1−3x/2)CexTiO3 ceramics displayed frequency-dependent relaxor dielectric anomalies and frequency-independent normal ferroelectric behaviors. The relaxor/dielectric properties were strongly dependent on structure-chemical factors. The value of εr decreased several times when Sr was subsequently substituted with Ce, and induced a relaxor-to-ferroelectric phase transition. A good combination of the following microwave dielectric properties was obtained for the Sr0.1Ce0.6TiO3 orthorhombic solid solution at an optimum temperature of 1300 °C for 3 h: εr = 50, Q × f = 11 311 GHz, and τf = +3 ppm per °C.

Graphical abstract: Dielectric and ferroelectric behavior of an incipient ferroelectric Sr(1−3x/2)CexTiO3 novel solid solution

Supplementary files

Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
23 Jul 2016
Accepted
20 Sep 2016
First published
20 Sep 2016

RSC Adv., 2016,6, 91679-91688

Dielectric and ferroelectric behavior of an incipient ferroelectric Sr(1−3x/2)CexTiO3 novel solid solution

B. Ullah, W. Lei, X. Wang, G. Fan, X. Wang and W. Lu, RSC Adv., 2016, 6, 91679 DOI: 10.1039/C6RA18717J

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