Effect of high pressure-high temperature treatment on the microstructure and dielectric properties of cobalt doped СaСu3Тi4О12

Abstract

The results of studying the effect of high pressures and high temperatures (8 GPa, 1273 K) used in the process of thermobaric treatment of CaCu3-xCoxTi4O12 ceramics (x = 0; 0.4; 0.6), initially prepared by solid-phase synthesis, on the structure and electrical characteristics are presented. The dielectric parameters were evaluated in a temperature interval (293–1000) K in a frequency range 1 Hz–32 MHz. It was established that the value of dielectric permittivity ε of samples upon thermobaric treatment is an order of magnitude higher than ε of samples prepared by solid-phase synthesis. The main reasons for the high values of dielectric permittivity are both the intragrain effects related, among other things, to hopping mechanism of polaron motion, and the polarization effects provided by the presence microstructure inhomogeneities. The latter are nonconducting boundaries of conducting grains and, in some examined materials, microscopic-scale surfaces of inhomogeneities, which appeared due to deformation during thermobaric treatment. At high temperatures, oxygen vacancies make the main contribution to the observed values of dielectric permittivity.