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Capacitor with fine grained BaTiO3 body and method for making
Assignee: MRA Laboratories Inc
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Filing: 1990-01-11
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Granted: 1991-04-23
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Expires: 2010-01-11
Abstract
Abstract Disc and multilayer ceramic capacitors having a fine grained barium titanate body having been sintered at less than 1100° C. exhibit a high dielectric constant and a smooth (X7R) temperature coefficient of capacitance. Such capacitors are made by mixing barium titanate powder of less than 0.6 micron average particle size, with around 2 weight percent of a silicate flux serving as a reactivity and sintering promoter and one weight percent Nb 2 O 5 serving as a reactivity and sintering inhibitor. After preparing a green body of this mixture, the body is sintered at about 1100° C. In the case of making a multilayer monolithic capacitor, the buried electrodes contain no more than 30 weight percent palladium, and adjacent pairs of the buried electrodes have been spaced apart as close as 5 microns in capacitors of this fine grained high dielectric constant X7R ceramic leading to very high packing density.
Inventors
- 👤 Galeb H. Maher
Bibliographic Details
Application Number
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Jurisdiction
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Data Source
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Last Synchronized
2026-11-08 16:48
CPC Classifications
H; H01; H01G; H01G4/00; H01G4/002; H01G4/018; H01G4/06; H01G4/08; H01G4/12; H01G4/1209; H01G4/1218; H01G4/1227; C; C04; C04B; C04B35/00; C04B35/01; C04B35/46; C04B35/462; C04B35/465; C04B35/468; C04B35/4682; Y; Y10; Y10T; Y10T29/00; Y10T29/43; Y10T29/435
Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 17
Claim 1
Independent Claim
84 words
A monolithic ceramic capacitor comprised of a barium titanate body, two groups of interdigitated electrodes buried in said body and extending respectively to opposite ends of said body, and two conductive terminations contacting said two groups respectively at said opposing body ends: said body being comprised of sintered barium titanate grains having an average size of from 0.5 to 0.9 micron, and in the grain boundaries from 1.5 to 2.5 weight percent of a silicate flux and a lesser amount of a reactivity-inhibitor compound.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim
84 words
A monolithic ceramic capacitor comprised of a barium titanate body, two groups of interdigitated electrodes buried in said body and extending respectively to opposite ends of said body, and two conductive terminations contacting said two groups respectively at said opposing body ends: said body being comprised of sintered barium titanate grains having an average size of from 0.5 to 0.9 micron, and in the grain boundaries from 1.5 to 2.5 weight percent of a silicate flux and a lesser amount of a reactivity-inhibitor compound.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
12 words
The capacitor of claim 1 wherein said flux is a cadmium silicate.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim
13 words
The capacitor of claim 1 wherein said barium titanate grains are approximately spherical.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim
23 words
The capacitor of claim 1 wherein said buried co-sintered electrodes are of a palladium silver alloy containing up to 30 weight percent palladium.
Claim 6
Dependent Claim
42 words
The capacitor of claim 1 wherein the dielectric constant K of said body at 25° C. is greater than 3000 and varies, from the value at 25° C. over the temperature range of -55° C. to +125° C., no more than 15%.
Claim 7
Independent Claim
130 words
A method for making a high K X7R monolithic ceramic capacitor comprising: (a) mixing a barium titanate powder having approximately spherical particles of average size from 0.2 to 0.6 micron, from 1.5 to 2.5 weight percent of a cadmium silicate sintering flux, and a lesser amount of a reactivity-inhibitor compound with an organic vehicle and binder to form a homogenous slurry: (b) preparing layers of said slurry, forming a body of said layers and interleaving patterned films of a metal ink between adjacent pairs of a plurality of said layers: and (c) firing said stack at a temperature less than 1120° C. to produce a dense ceramic capacitor body with buried electrodes and with sintered barium titanate grains having an average particle size of within from 0.5 to 0.9 micron.
Claim 8
Independent Claim
130 words
A method for making a high K X7R monolithic ceramic capacitor comprising: (a) mixing a barium titanate powder having approximately spherical particles of average size from 0.2 to 0.6 micron, from 1.5 to 2.5 weight percent of a cadmium silicate sintering flux, and a lesser amount of a reactivity-inhibitor compound with an organic vehicle and binder to form a homogenous slurry: (b) preparing layers of said slurry, forming a body of said layers and interleaving patterned films of a metal ink between adjacent pairs of a plurality of said layers: and (c) firing said stack at a temperature less than 1120° C. to produce a dense ceramic capacitor body with buried electrodes and with sintered barium titanate grains having an average particle size of within from 0.5 to 0.9 micron.
Claim 9
Dependent Claim
12 words
The method of claim 6 wherein said flux is a cadmium silicate.
Claim 10
Dependent Claim
24 words
The method of claim 6 wherein said flux is a silicate selected from 3CdO·SiO 2 , 2CdO·SiO 2 , 5CdO·2SiO 2 and mixtures thereof.
Claim 11
Dependent Claim
15 words
The method of claim 8 wherein said reactivity inhibitor is Nb 2 O 5 .
Claim 12
Dependent Claim
23 words
The method of claim 6 wherein said reactivity-inhibitor is selected from the oxides of niobium, tantalum, bismuth and titanium and from bismuth titanate.
Claim 13
Dependent Claim
21 words
The method of claim 6 wherein said barium titanate grains have an average particle size ranging from 0.5 to 0.9 micron.
Claim 14
Dependent Claim
23 words
The method of claim 6 wherein at least one of said plurality of ceramic slurry layers has a thickness less than 10 microns.
Claim 15
Dependent Claim
19 words
The method of claim 6 wherein said at least one slurry layer has a thickness of about 4 microns.
Claim 16
Dependent Claim
19 words
The method of claim 6 wherein the metal in said metal ink includes up to 30 weight percent palladium.
Claim 17
Dependent Claim
16 words
The method of claim 6 wherein said barium titanate powder is essentially pure BaTiO 3 .
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