Synthesis of BaTiO₃ Ceramics Using Co-Precipitation and Solid-State Reaction Method with Sintering Temperature Variation

Abstract

Barium Titanate (BT) is one of the most intriguing ferroelectric materials widely exploited both for academic and technological utilization. The study aimed to investigate characteristics of BT ceramics Synthesized by co-precipitation (BT-C) and solid-state methods (BT-S) with variation of sintering temperatures. Here, the sintering temperatures are 900°C, 1000°C, 1100°C, and 1200°C for 4 h of each The characteristics are microstructure, morphology, and dielectric properties evaluated using X-Ray Diffractometer (XRD), Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM), and Inductance-Capacitance-Resistance (LCR) meter, respectively. As results, the XRD patterns shows a pure perovskite single phase of BT was obtained by solid-state method at sintering temperature of 1000°C. While, the same result was obtained by co-precipitation at sintering temperature of 1100°C. The average crystallite size of BT-C and BT-S ceramics are in close values and getting larger with the higher sintering temperatures. Meanwhile, tetragonality of the BT-C tends to be larger as compared to the BT-S. The morphology results revealed big formed particles agglomeration (>5 μm) of the BT-C ceramics and the densities proportionally increased as the higher temperatures exhibited less porosity of ceramics. Meanwhile, the BT-S grains were visible and agglomerated in a much smaller size with the density values were different as the change of the sintering temperatures. The dielectric permittivity of the BT-C and BT-S ceramics were increased with higher sintering temperature. Further, the BT-C ceramics possessed higher permittivity than the BT-S due to high densities (less porosity) of ceramics. The highest permittivity of 1150 at 40 kHz was achieved by BT-C at 1200°C.