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Title: BaTiO 3 -based composites provide new opportunities enabled by the cold sintering process
Abstract This paper reviews the synthesis of BaTiO3-based ceramic and composites through the cold sintering process. Cold sintering is a densification process that works with a low-temperature mechanism known as pressure solution creep. This provides several opportunities to fabricate BaTiO3into new composite structures that could provide important advanced dielectric properties. Here we revisit the challenges of densifying a material such as BaTiO3that has incongruent dissolution. We consider the issues of surface chemistry, selection of transient flux, core–shell designs in BaTiO3, co-sintering with polymers in the grain boundaries and the technical challenges associated with incorporating all these ideas into tape casting steps for future fabrication of multilayer device structures.  more » « less
Award ID(s):
2134643
PAR ID:
10502863
Author(s) / Creator(s):
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Publisher / Repository:
IOP
Date Published:
Journal Name:
Japanese Journal of Applied Physics
Volume:
62
Issue:
SM
ISSN:
0021-4922
Page Range / eLocation ID:
SM1030
Format(s):
Medium: X
Sponsoring Org:
National Science Foundation
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