Barium Titanate BaTiO3 is known for both its electric and magnetic properties. The synthesis and characterization of iron doped barium titanate; BaTi1-xFexO3 (x= 0.005, 0.01, 0.015) was investigated with a view to understand its structural, magnetic and electrical properties. A finest possible sample of Iron doped micro particles of BaTiO3 (BTO) with possible tetragonal structure via a solid-st...

We use ab initio Quantum Mechanical (QM) calculations to derive a force field that accurately describes the atomic interactions in BaTiO3 allowing, via Molecular Dynamics (MD), the simulation of thousands of atoms. A key feature of the force field (denoted ReaxFF) is that charge transfer and atomic polarization are treated self-consistently. The charge on each atom is separated into a core, des...

The structural, electronic and dielectric properties of high-quality ultrathin BaTiO3 films were investigated. The films, which were grown by ozone-assisted molecular beam epitaxy on Nb-doped SrTiO3(001) substrates and have thicknesses as low as 8 unit cells (u.c.) (3.2 nm), are unreconstructed and atomically smooth with large crystalline terraces. A strain-driven transition to three-dimensiona...

Structural, Dielectric and magnetic properties 0.3 CoFe2O4–0.7 BaTiO3–PVDF (polyvinylidene fluride) composite film with different concentration of PVDF: 20, 30 and 40 wt% are reported here for the first time. The structural analysis was carried out using X-Ray diffraction technique, which indicates cubic spinel structure for ferrite phase CoFe2O4 (CFO) and tetragonal structure for ferroelectric...

Currently commercially available acrylic bone cements lack adequate radiopacity and viscosity when they are used in percutaneous vertebroplasty (PVP). In this work improved formulations of radiopaque and injectable poly(methyl methacrylate) bone cements were prepared with different amounts (10-50 wt.%) of BaTiO3 or SrTiO3 particles as the radiopaque agent. Two sets of cements were prepared by u...

The instability of ferroelectric ordering in ultra-thin films is one of the most important fundamental issues pertaining realization of a number of electronic devices with enhanced functionality, such as ferroelectric and multiferroic tunnel junctions or ferroelectric field effect transistors. In this paper, we investigate the polarization state of archetypal ultrathin (several nanometres) ferr...

Multilayer ceramic capacitor (MLCC) production and sales figures are the highest among fine-ceramic products developed in the past 30 years. The total worldwide production and sales reached 550 billion pieces and 6 billion dollars, respectively in 2000. In the course of progress, the development of base-metal electrode (BME) technology played an important role in expanding the application area....

Structural defects formed on $111% planes of BaTiO3 during the degradation of high performance multilayer Ni–BaTiO3 X7R ceramic capacitors are studied using transmission electron microscopy and electron energy loss spectroscopy ~EELS!. Regular pseudocubic barium titanate grains are present in as-produced ~virginal! base-metal electrode capacitors. However, there is a coexistence of regular, mod...

Composite materials containing particulate BaTiO3 inclusion have been fabricated with BaZrO3-ZnO as the matrix. Giant anelastic responses (abrupt increase in modulus and damping vs. temperature) have been observed after 75 ◦C aging 24 h in these composites in the temperature region far below the Curie point of BaTiO3. Anomalies disappeared after 185 ◦C aging 4 h. Such responses are attributed t...