J. Mater. Sci. Technol. ›› 2012, Vol. 28 ›› Issue (12): 1145-1150.

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Dielectric and Electrical Transport Properties of the Fe3+-doped CaCu3Ti4O12

Zhi Yang, Yue Zhang, Guang You, Kun Zhang, Rui Xiong, Jing Shi   

  1. 1) Key Laboratory of Artificial Micro- and Nano-structures of Ministry of Education and School of Physics and Technology, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, China
    2) Institution of Sensors and Intelligent System and School of Optical and Electronic Information, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, China
    3) Key Laboratory for the Green Preparation and Application of Functional Materials of Ministry of Education, Hubei University, Wuhan 430062, China
    4) International Center for Materials Physics, Shenyang 110016, China
  • Received:2012-08-04 Revised:2012-09-23 Online:2012-11-12 Published:2012-11-23
  • Contact: Jing Shi
  • Supported by:

    the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 51172166 and 51202078) and the Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China (No. 01-18-185011)

Abstract:

CaCu3-xFexTi4O12 (x=0, 0.015, 0.03, 0.045, 0.06) ceramics were synthesized by sol-gel method. The electrical conduction and dielectric measurements show that the doping of a very small amount of Fe3+ ions greatly reduces the low-frequency dielectric constants and leakage, and enhances grain resistivity. For the doped samples, the appearance of the strong low-frequency peaks in the spectra of dielectric loss confirms that the doping of Fe3+ ions induces the contact-electrode effect on ceramic surface. These great changes of electrical properties may originate from the reduced amount of oxygen vacancies by doping Fe3+.

Key words: Ceramics, dc electric current, Dielectric properties, Doping