Abstract
The influence of sintering conditions on the microstructural features and impedance characteristics of the giant dielectric constant material CaCu3Ti4O12 (CCTO) was investigated. The microstructure and impedance characteristics were found to be strongly dependent on the sintering conditions. Sintering of the CCTO ceramics at elevated temperatures (>1100 °C) for prolonged durations resulted in the segregation of Cu-rich phase, mostly confined to the surface, which was in concomitance with the appearance of the additional semicircle at the low frequency end in Impedance (Z*) plots. The absence of this additional semicircle in the Cu-deficient CCTO ceramics and the appearance of the same in Cu-rich CCTO ceramics that were deliberately fabricated corroborated the above observations. Also, La2/3Cu3Ti4O12 (LCTO), a low dielectric constant member of CCTO family, which consisted of small grains without the segregation of Cu-rich phase at the grain boundary, did not reveal the presence of additional semicircle in the Z*plots.
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