Abstract:
In recent years, with the development of 5G mobile communication, the development of communication technology has attracted more and more attentions. As the most widely used material in communication field, microwave dielectric ceramics have also raised higher requirements for their dielectric properties, including appropriate dielectric constant (
εr), as high as possible
Q×
f value, and close to zero frequency temperature coefficient (
τf). For a perovskite-structured material, using an appropriate doping to increase its
Q×
f value is an effective method. In this work, the microwave dielectric ceramics of SrTi
(1-1.25x)Nb
xO
3 doped with stoichiometric Nb
2O
5 were prepared by a conventional solid-state route. The phase composition, microstructures and microwave dielectric properties of the ceramics (
x:0-0.005) were investigated. The results show that when
x increases from 0 to 0.005, both the phase composition and volume density of SrTi
(1-1.25x)Nb
xO
3 keep stable without obvious changes. On the other hand, with the increasing of Nb
5+ ion content, the number of small grains in the crystal keeps decreasing while the size of the large grain increases rapidly. Meanwhile, the dielectric constant (
εr) is unchanged basically, while the
Q×
f value is increasing. When
x is 0.005, the excellent microwave dielectric properties,
i.e., 296.41 of
εr, 6 953 GHz of
Q×
f could be obtained for the ceramics of SrTi
(1-1.25x)Nb
xO
3 (SrTi
0.993 75Nb
0.005O
3) dielectric.