Fabrication and electrical characteristics of flash-sintered SiO2-doped ZnO-Bi2O3-MnO2 varistors

Pai PENG; Yujun DENG; Jingpeng NIU; Liyi SHI; Yunzhu MEI; Sanming DU; Juan LIU; Dong XU

doi:10.1007/s40145-020-0404-7

Journal of Advanced Ceramics 2020, 9(6): 683-692 https://doi.org/10.1007/s40145-020-0404-7

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Fabrication and electrical characteristics of flash-sintered SiO₂-doped ZnO-Bi₂O₃-MnO₂ varistors

Show Author's Information Hide Author's Information Pai PENG^{^a^,^b}, Yujun DENG^{^a^,^b}, Jingpeng NIU^{^a^,^b}, Liyi SHI^{^c}, Yunzhu MEI^{^a^,^b}, Sanming DU^{^d}, Juan LIU^{^a^,^b}(

), Dong XU^{^a^,^b}(

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aKey Laboratory of Green Fabrication and Surface Technology of Advanced Metal Materials (Anhui University of Technology), Ministry of Education, Ma'anshan 243002, China

bKey Laboratory of Etallurgical Emission Reduction & Resources Recycling (Anhui University of Technology), Ministry of Education, Ma'anshan 243002, China

cResearch Center of Nano Science and Technology, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200444, China

dNational United Engineering Laboratory for Advanced Bearing Tribology, Henan University of Science and Technology, Luoyang 471023, China

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electrical properties, flash sintering, SiO₂ additive, ZBMS varistors

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PENG P, DENG Y, NIU J, et al. Fabrication and electrical characteristics of flash-sintered SiO₂-doped ZnO-Bi₂O₃-MnO₂ varistors. Journal of Advanced Ceramics, 2020, 9(6): 683-692. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40145-020-0404-7

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The dense ZnO-Bi₂O₃-MnO₂-xSiO₂ (ZBMS) varistors for x = 0, 1, 2, 3 wt% were fabricated by flash sintering method under the low temperature of 850 ℃ within 2 min. The sample temperature was estimated by a black body radiation model in the flash sintering process. The crystalline phase assemblage, density, microstructure, and electrical characteristics of the flash-sintered ZBMS varistors with different SiO₂-doped content were investigated. According to the XRD analysis, many secondary phases were detected due to the SiO₂ doping. Meanwhile, the average grain size decrease with increasing SiO₂-doped content. The improved nonlinear characteristics were obtained in SiO₂-doped samples, which can be attributed to the ion migration and oxygen absorption induced by the doped SiO₂. The flash-sintered ZBMS varistor ceramics for x = 2 wt% exhibited excellent comprehensive electrical properties, with the nonlinear coefficient of 24.5, the threshold voltage and leakage current of 385 V·mm^-1 and 11.8 µA, respectively.

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Fabrication and electrical characteristics of flash-sintered SiO₂-doped ZnO-Bi₂O₃-MnO₂ varistors

Show Author's information Hide Author's Information Pai PENG^{^a^,^b}, Yujun DENG^{^a^,^b}, Jingpeng NIU^{^a^,^b}, Liyi SHI^{^c}, Yunzhu MEI^{^a^,^b}, Sanming DU^{^d}, Juan LIU^{^a^,^b}(

), Dong XU^{^a^,^b}(

)

aKey Laboratory of Green Fabrication and Surface Technology of Advanced Metal Materials (Anhui University of Technology), Ministry of Education, Ma'anshan 243002, China

bKey Laboratory of Etallurgical Emission Reduction & Resources Recycling (Anhui University of Technology), Ministry of Education, Ma'anshan 243002, China

cResearch Center of Nano Science and Technology, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200444, China

dNational United Engineering Laboratory for Advanced Bearing Tribology, Henan University of Science and Technology, Luoyang 471023, China

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Keywords: electrical properties, flash sintering, SiO₂ additive, ZBMS varistors

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Received: 22 April 2020

Revised: 02 July 2020

Accepted: 04 July 2020

Published: 29 July 2020

Issue date: December 2020

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This work was financially supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 51802003 and 51572113), State Key Laboratory of New Ceramic and Fine Processing Tsinghua University (No. KF201808), and the Project National United Engineering Laboratory for Advanced Bearing Tribology (No. 201912).

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