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Preparation of textured bismuth titanate ceramics through templated grain growth combined with spark plasma sintering

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 February 2011

Keishi Nishio ,
Rena Maeda ,
Junsuke Kihou ,
Yasuo Kogo ,
Tohru Kineri  and
Atsuo Yasumori
Keishi Nishio
Affiliation:
Department of Materials Science and Technology, Tokyo University of Science, 2641 Yamazaki, Noda-shi, Chiba 278–8510, Japan
Rena Maeda
Affiliation:
Department of Materials Science and Technology, Tokyo University of Science, 2641 Yamazaki, Noda-shi, Chiba 278–8510, Japan
Junsuke Kihou
Affiliation:
Department of Materials Science and Technology, Tokyo University of Science, 2641 Yamazaki, Noda-shi, Chiba 278–8510, Japan
Yasuo Kogo
Affiliation:
Department of Materials Science and Technology, Tokyo University of Science, 2641 Yamazaki, Noda-shi, Chiba 278–8510, Japan
Tohru Kineri
Affiliation:
Department of Materials Science & Environmental Engineering, Tokyo University of Science, Yamaguchi, 1–1–1 Daigaku-doori, Onoda-shi, Yamaguchi, 756–0884
Atsuo Yasumori
Affiliation:
Department of Materials Science and Technology, Tokyo University of Science, 2641 Yamazaki, Noda-shi, Chiba 278–8510, Japan
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Abstract

Textured bismuth titanate (Bi4Ti3O12), the simplest and best known compound among the bismuth layer-structure ferroelectrics is interesting because of its peculiar switching behavior which results from a small c-axis component of the spontaneous polarization and a small coercive force. We prepared Bi4Ti3O12 ceramics through the templated grain growth (TGG) method combined with the spark plasma sintering (SPS) method. The TGG method was developed to provide a simpler way of creating textured ceramic microstructures. The SPS method enables a compact powder to be sintered under uniform heating to a high density at relative low temperatures and with much shorter sintering periods than with conventional sintering.

We obtained a Bi4Ti3O12 precursor powder through a co-precipitation method with Ti alkoxide and Bi oxide as raw materials. Platelet Bi4Ti3O12 was synthesized from the precursor powder through a flux method using NaCl and KCl. The obtained platelet Bi4Ti3O12 had a high aspect ratio. The ceramics were prepared by SPS treatment using a mixture of the platelet Bi4Ti3O12 and the amorphous precursor powder. As a result, dense ceramics could be easily obtained without crystalline amorphous precursors and grain growth was not observed during the sintering. After heat treatment of the ceramics, we obtained highly textured, high density Bi4Ti3O12 ceramics. The ceramics showed high orientation, above 70%, for the c-axis direction and high density of over 85%.

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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 848: Symposium FF – Solid-State Chemistry of Inorganic Materials V , 2004 , FF3.8
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 2005

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