The variable thermal sensitivity of strontium-lead titanate semiconducting ceramics

摘要

Strontium-lead titanate semiconducting ceramics with low room temperature resistivity (PRT) and variable NTCR-PTCR composite effects were fabricated at different sintering conditions. Both PRT and the NTCR effect decreased at the higher heating rate or doping excess of PbO. After the heat-treatment at 950℃, the transformations from PTCR to NTCR-PTCR characteristics were observed in excess PbO-doped samples. According to the results, it is assumed that the lead vacancies (V"{sub}(Pb)) in the grain boundary layers degenerate the conductivity of strontium-lead titanate semiconducting ceramics and the NTCR behaviors below the Curie temperature are ascribed to the electron detrapping of acceptor defects with increasing temperature.