Substituted barium titanate and barium strontium titanate ferroelectric compositions

Abstract

This invention provides the three novel La,Fe, La,Cr and Sm,Fe substituted barium titanate solid solution ferroelectric compositions with the formula Ba1−xLnxTi1−xMxO3 wherein when Ln is La, M is Fe or Cr, when Ln is Sm, M is Fe and x is from about 0.02 to about 0.06 and mixtures thereof, the novel La,Fe substituted barium strontium titanate solid solution ferroelectric compositions with the formula (Ba1−ySry)1−xLaxTi1−xFexO3 wherein y is greater than zero and less than about 0.6 and x is from about 0.01 to about 0.06 and the novel La,Al substituted barium strontium titanate solid solution ferroelectric compositions with the formula (Ba1−ySry)1−xLaxTi1−x/4−3a/4Ala}(x−a)/4O3 wherein } denotes a vacancy, y is greater than zero and less than about 0.6, a is from about 0.01 to about 0.06 and x is from 0.02 to about 0.10 with the proviso that x is greater than or equal to a. These low loss tunable ferroelectric compositions are especially useful in tunable microwave thin film devices which fall into three types: interdigital and trilayer capacitors, coplanar waveguides and microstrips.

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