Experimental and theoretical characterization of an antiferroelectric ceramic capacitor for power electronics
- 7 August 2002
- journal article
- Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in IEEE Transactions on Components and Packaging Technologies
- Vol. 25 (2), 211-216
- https://doi.org/10.1109/tcapt.2002.1010008
Abstract
Capacitance-voltage (C-V) measurements up to 800 VDC were made on a modified lead-zirconate (PbZrO/sub 3/) 20-layer multilayer ceramic (MLC) antiferroelectric power-electronic capacitor, with large energy-density storage capability. For these a precision impedance analyzer was used, in conjunction with a high-voltage capacitor dc-bias circuit configured for voltage-isolation from the analyzer input. A peak effective permittivity /spl epsiv/ /spl sim/ 4300 was derived at the capacitance peak of 133 nF at 400-V dc-bias, yielding an energy density storage of /spl sim/0.5 J/cc in the device volume of 0.022 cc. Modeling of the experimental C-V response was applied to three conceptual series-connected capacitance regions within each grain and grain-boundary region of the MLC. The equivalent capacitance component for the first region was derived from the voltage-dependent polarizations within a ferroelectric and/or antiferroelectric grain. This involved application of differing Langevin functions for modeling the ferroelectric and antiferroelectric polarizations. That for the second region related to the voltage and frequency dependence of the equivalent p-n junction capacitance at opposite sides of a grain-boundary and compensation-region, with Debye-type relaxation constants relating its frequency dependence. The third capacitance region was associated with the insulator-barrier region itself. Agreement between experimental and theoretical C-V-f responses was considered to be good, in view of the number of modeling parameters and variables employed.Keywords
This publication has 11 references indexed in Scilit:
- Ferroelectric Ceramics: History and TechnologyJournal of the American Ceramic Society, 1999
- Improving the frequency response of ceramic dielectrics for high power applications in power electronic convertersIEEE Transactions on Components, Packaging, and Manufacturing Technology: Part A, 1996
- Observations on competing mechanisms governing the C-V responses of nonlinear ceramic capacitorsIEEE Transactions on Components, Packaging, and Manufacturing Technology: Part A, 1995
- Relaxation effects in high-voltage barium titanate nonlinear ceramic disk capacitorsIEEE Transactions on Components, Hybrids, and Manufacturing Technology, 1993
- Multilayer Ceramic ProcessingPublished by Springer Science and Business Media LLC ,1993
- Aspects of modeling of high voltage ferroelectric nonlinear ceramic capacitorsIEEE Transactions on Components, Hybrids, and Manufacturing Technology, 1992
- Energy Storage in Ceramic DielectricsJournal of the American Ceramic Society, 1990
- Microwave Dielectric Properties of Antiferroelectric Lead ZirconateJournal of the American Ceramic Society, 1988
- Theory of ferromagnetic hysteresisJournal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials, 1986
- Semiconducting barium titanateJournal of Materials Science, 1971