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Ceramic capacitor and method for making the same
Assignee: MRA Laboratories Inc
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Filing: 1979-09-28
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Granted: 1981-05-05
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Expires: 1999-09-28
Abstract
Abstract High-cadmium silicates, namely 2CdO.SiO2, 5CdO.2SiO2 and 3CdO.SiO2, are employed as the flux in a dielectric ceramic precursor mixture. The characteristic melting temperature of these fluxes is greater than the maximum ceramic firing temperature employed in the present method. Nevertheless, liquid phase sintering is achieved when such cations as the alkaline earth metals or lead from the high firing ceramic precursors diffuses into the flux, displacing some of the cadmium and reducing the melting temperature of the flux below that of the firing temperature. Some of the cadmium from the flux is drawn into the grains to replace the lost barium and lead. Escape of cadmium into the atmosphere is thereby substantially prevented. This method is particularly effective when the dielectric ceramic is a barium lead titanate zirconate and when the amount of the flux is kept very small. Even more particularly, unusually smooth capacitance versus temperature characteristics and high room-temperature dielectric-constants are realized for solid solutions of barium titanate with from 8-15 mole percent lead zirconate.
Inventors
- 👤 Galeb H. Maher
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CPC Classifications
H; H01; H01G; H01G4/00; H01G4/002; H01G4/018; H01G4/06; H01G4/08; H01G4/12; H01G4/1209; H01G4/1236; H01G4/1245; H01G4/129
Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 17
Claim 1
Independent Claim
102 words
A method for making a ceramic capacitor comprising: mixing ceramic precursor powders consisting essentially of a high-temperature-firing ceramic that includes an alkaline-earth-metal titanate and a cadmium silicate powder selected from CdO.SiO 2 , 2CdO.SiO 2 , 5CdO.2SiO 2 , 3CdO.SiO 2 and combinations thereof, the overall atomic ratio of Cd to Si in said cadmium silicate powder being from 2:1 to 3:1, forming a body of said mixed powders; firing said body at a temperature of up to 1150° C. and at less than the melting temperature of said cadmium silicate powder; and applying two spaced electrodes in contact with said body.
Claim 2
Independent Claim
102 words
A method for making a ceramic capacitor comprising: mixing ceramic precursor powders consisting essentially of a high-temperature-firing ceramic that includes an alkaline-earth-metal titanate and a cadmium silicate powder selected from CdO.SiO 2 , 2CdO.SiO 2 , 5CdO.2SiO 2 , 3CdO.SiO 2 and combinations thereof, the overall atomic ratio of Cd to Si in said cadmium silicate powder being from 2:1 to 3:1, forming a body of said mixed powders; firing said body at a temperature of up to 1150° C. and at less than the melting temperature of said cadmium silicate powder; and applying two spaced electrodes in contact with said body.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
14 words
The method of claim 1 wherein said high temperature firing ceramic is a barium-lead-titanate.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim
29 words
The method of claim 2 wherein the source of said lead in said precursor powders is a compound selected from lead zirconate, lead stannate, lead titanate and mixtures thereof.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim
28 words
The method of claim 2 wherein said high temperature firing ceramic is a barium-lead-titanate-zirconate, the number of lead cations being within 5% of the number of zirconium cations.
Claim 6
Dependent Claim
26 words
The method of claim 2 where said lead amounts to as much as 15 mole percent of the sum of said lead and said alkaline-earth metal.
Claim 7
Dependent Claim
41 words
The method of claim 1 wherein at least 90% by weight of said high temperature firing ceramic has essentially the formula (BaTiO 3 ) 1-x .(PbZrO 3 ) x where x has a value in the range from 0.08 to 0.15.
Claim 8
Dependent Claim
35 words
The method of claim 1 wherein said precursor powders include barium-titanate-donor atoms selected from bismuth, niobium, tantalum, antimony, tungsten, lanthanum, uranium and combinations thereof, in a molar amount no greater than that of said cadmium.
Claim 9
Dependent Claim
15 words
The method of claim 7 wherein said precursor powders include a prereacted barium titanate niobate.
Claim 10
Dependent Claim
28 words
The method of claim 1 wherein the number of atoms of said silicon is no more than 2.2% of the total number of cations in said precursor material.
Claim 11
Dependent Claim
13 words
The method of claim 1 wherein said cadmium silicate is 5CdO.2SiO 2 .
Claim 12
Dependent Claim
96 words
A ceramic capacitor comprising a dielectric ceramic body and two spaced electrodes in contact with said body, said body consisting essentially of a granular crystalline phase and an intergranular silicate phase, said granular phase consisting essentially of from 92 to 84 mole percent BaTiO 3 and from 8 to 15 mole percent PbZrO 3 wherein from 0.4 to 3 mole percent of said Ba and Pb are replaced by cadmium cations, the atomic ratio of the total number of Cd atoms to the total number of Si atoms in said body being from 2:1 to 3:1.
Claim 13
Dependent Claim
96 words
A ceramic capacitor comprising a dielectric ceramic body and two spaced electrodes in contact with said body, said body consisting essentially of a granular crystalline phase and an intergranular silicate phase, said granular phase consisting essentially of from 92 to 84 mole percent BaTiO 3 and from 8 to 15 mole percent PbZrO 3 wherein from 0.4 to 3 mole percent of said Ba and Pb are replaced by cadmium cations, the atomic ratio of the total number of Cd atoms to the total number of Si atoms in said body being from 2:1 to 3:1.
Claim 14
Dependent Claim
59 words
The ceramic capacitor of claim 11 wherein said cadmium cations are +1 charge and from 0.2 to 3 mole percent donor cations selected from Nb +5 , Ta +5 , Sb +5 , Bi +5 , Bi +3 , La +3 , U +3 , W +6 , and combinations thereof to substantially charge balance said Cd +1 cations.
Claim 15
Dependent Claim
37 words
The ceramic capacitor of claim 11 wherein said total number of Si atoms is in said intergranular silicate and amounts to from 0.5 to 2.2 mole percent of the total number of cations in said ceramic body.
Claim 16
Dependent Claim
148 words
A ceramic capacitor comprising a dielectric ceramic body and two spaced electrodes in contact with said body, said body consisting essentially of a granular crystalline phase and an intergranular silicate phase, said granular phase consisting essentially of from 92 to 84 mole percent BaTiO 3 and from 8 to 15 mole percent PbZrO 3 wherein from 0.4 to 3 mole percent of said Ba and Pb are replaced by cadmium cations, the atomic ratio of the total number of Cd atoms to the total number of Si atoms in said body being from 2.1 to 3:1, said body having been formed from a mixture of a high-temperature-firing ceramic powder and a cadmium silicate powder selected from CdO.SiO 2 , 2CdO.SiO 2 , 5CdO.2SiO 2 , 3CdO.SiO 2 and combinations thereof and said body having been fired at a temperature less than the melting temperature of said cadmium silicate.
Claim 17
Dependent Claim
148 words
A ceramic capacitor comprising a dielectric ceramic body and two spaced electrodes in contact with said body, said body consisting essentially of a granular crystalline phase and an intergranular silicate phase, said granular phase consisting essentially of from 92 to 84 mole percent BaTiO 3 and from 8 to 15 mole percent PbZrO 3 wherein from 0.4 to 3 mole percent of said Ba and Pb are replaced by cadmium cations, the atomic ratio of the total number of Cd atoms to the total number of Si atoms in said body being from 2.1 to 3:1, said body having been formed from a mixture of a high-temperature-firing ceramic powder and a cadmium silicate powder selected from CdO.SiO 2 , 2CdO.SiO 2 , 5CdO.2SiO 2 , 3CdO.SiO 2 and combinations thereof and said body having been fired at a temperature less than the melting temperature of said cadmium silicate.
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