Temperature stability adjustment of cobalt-doped Li2MgSiO4 ceramic: its' sintering, dielectric, and mechanical properties

The sintering and dielectric properties of (1 − x)Li2Mg0.95Co0.05SiO4 + xTiO2 ceramics created by the solid state reaction method were investigated. X-ray diffraction and energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy were used to obtain phase composition of the ceramics, and scanning electron microscopy was used to observe their microstructure. A network analyzer was used to measure dielectric properties, while mechanical, simultaneous-thermal, and dynamic mechanical analyzers were used to obtain mechanical and chemical properties. Li2Mg0.95Co0.05SiO4 (LMCS) and TiO2 co-exist in the composite system. TiO2 addition resulted in decreasing grain size and crystallite size, increasing starting temperature of shrinkage, increasing activation energy, and increasing elasticity and stiffness. A 4%/volume addition of TiO2 and sintering at 1075 °C changed the LMCS τf to 1.57 ppm/°C and resulted in dielectric properties of εr = 6.33 and Q × f = 17,000 GHz (16 GHz) with a relative density equals to 96.13%.