Abstract:
In order to reduce the sintering temperature of CaSiO
3 ceramic, by adding 1wt% Al
2O
3 and different amounts of V
2O
5 into CaSiO
3 powders, the effects of V
2O
5 additive amount on the sintering behavior, microstructure and microwave dielectric properties of CaSiO
3 ceramics were investigated. The results show that the appropriate addition of V
2O
5 can not only reduces the sintering temperature of V
2O
5-Al
2O
3/CaSiO
3 ceramics from 1 250 ℃ to 1 000 ℃, but also restrict the abnormal growth of CaSiO
3 ceramic grains and refine the ceramic grains. In the sintering process, V
2O
5 will melt and promote the densification process of CaSiO
3 ceramic by liquid phase wetting effect. At the same time, some of V
2O
5 will volatilize, and the non-volatilized V
2O
5 will react with the matrix material to form the second phase, and the emergence of the second phase reduces the quality factor of the ceramic substantially. Taking the sintering behavior and microwave dielectric properties into consideration synthetically, when V
2O
5 additive amount is 6wt%, the V
2O
5-Al
2O
3/CaSiO
3 ceramic sintered at 1 075 ℃ for 2 h has favorable comprehensive properties, the dielectric constant is 7.38 and the quality factor is 21 218 GHz.