Abstract:
The poor temperature stability of the K
0.5Na
0.5NbO
3 ceramic has always been the main problem limiting their application. Existing methods often reduce the dielectric constant while improving temperature stability. In this work, a multi-scale control strategy of Ta
2O
5/La
2O
3 co-doping is proposed for achieving synchronous improvement of temperature stability and dielectric constant of K
0.5Na
0.5NbO
3 based ceramics. In particular, the 0.96K
0.5Na
0.5Nb
0.7Ta
0.3O
3·0.04La
2O
3 ceramic sample exhibited excellent properties: dielectric constant at room temperature ε
100 kHz=
1580, tanδ = 0.05, temperature stability with ε
r variation of ≤15% over a wide temperature range (20–230℃), and a diffusivity parameter
γ of 1.96, which is close to that of an ideal relaxor ferroelectric, while remanent polarization decreased and E
b increased to 5μC/cm
2 and 80 kV/cm, respectively. The oxygen vacancy polarization and ion vacancy polarization generated by defect dipoles formed by Ta
2O
5/La
2O
3 co-doping increase the dielectric constant. The strong oxygen bonding ability of La
3+ and the ideal relaxor ferroelectric formed by co-doping further enhance temperature stability. This study breaks the limitations of single polarization and has certain guiding significance for further expanding the application of K
0.5Na
0.5NbO
3 in MLCC.