1. Two K20 microwave dielectric ceramics SrLnAlO4 (Ln = Eu, Gd) with near-zero τf and contrasting Q×f.
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Wang, Sijie, Fang, Weishuang, Wu, Daofu, Meng, Kuiyi, Tang, Ying, Yang, Junfeng, Ding, Mingjian, Lin, Huixing, and Fang, Liang
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CERAMICS , *MOLECULAR polarizability , *DIELECTRICS , *MICROWAVES , *MAGNETIC moments , *VALENCE bonds - Abstract
K20 microwave dielectric ceramics SrLnAlO 4 (Ln = Eu, Gd, and Ho) were prepared at 1440–1520 °C. SrEuAlO 4 and SrGdAlO 4 crystallized into tetragonal K 2 NiF 4 -type structures. While SrHoAlO 4 was a mixture (SrHo 2 Al 2 O 7 , Ho 2 O 3 , and Sr 3 HoAl 2 O 7.5) due to the too-small radius of Ho3+ to bond in [HoO 9 ] dodecahedron. SrEuAlO 4 and SrGdAlO 4 exhibited near-zero τ f values of +1.7 and +4.3 ppm/°C and low ε r (19.37 and 19.14) along with contrasting Q × f values (70,030 and 5560 GHz). Compared with the modified molecular polarizability (α Corr) based on the bond valence deviation, the α obs values of SrEuAlO 4 and SrGdAlO 4 are much higher, indicating that their dielectric polarizabilities were underestimated, and this phenomenon was mainly influenced by rattling cations, which also causes their τ f with near-zero values. Due to the magnetic subsystem adversely affecting microwave dielectric losses, the worsened Q × f value of SrGdAlO 4 compared to that of SrEuAlO 4 is due to the high magnetic moment of Gd3+ (7.94 μ B). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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