Phase, microstructure and dielectric properties of 0.94Bi0.5Na0.5TiO3-0.06BaTiO3 ceramics prepared by sol-gel technique

0.94Bi0.5Na0.5TiO3-0.06BaTiO3 ceramics were fabricated by sol-gel technique. The XRD results revealed the formation of a single phase perovskite structured Bi0.5Na0.5TiO3-BaTiO3 at 600 °C. The SEM images showed dense microstructure and the optimum density of the ceramics sintered at 1100 °C was 5.2 g/cm3. The saturation polarization (Ps) was found to be increased with increasing temperature while the remnant polarization (Pr) was found to be increased gradually and then decreased abruptly near 85 °C, which could be attributed to the phase transformation. The coercive electric field (Ec) was found to be decreased gradually with increasing temperature. The maximum value of dielectric constant (ɛ r) at room temperature was 800 and dielectric loss at 1 MHz was 0.07.