Effect of rare-earth additions on the structure and dielectric energy storage properties of BaxSr1-xTiO3-based barium boronaluminosilicate glass-ceramics

Abstract Ba x Sr 1-x TiO 3 -based barium boroaluminosilicate (BST-BBAS) glass-ceramics added with La 2 O 3 , Gd 2 O 3 and Yb 2 O 3 were fabricated through the melting method followed by controlled crystallization, respectively. The X-ray diffraction and the field emission scanning electron microscopy were investigated the phase composition and microstructure for the BST-BBAS glass-ceramics added with rare-earth additions, then the temperature-dependent dielectric properties and the voltage-withstand measurements were applied to study the effect of rare-earth additions on the dielectric energy storage density. These results show that the certain content of rare-earth additions can optimize the microstructure and phase structure effectively. And with the decrease of ionic radiuses of rare-earth elements, the microstructure of the glass-ceramics become more uniform. When added with 0.5 mol% Yb 3+ , the theoretical energy storage density of the BST-BBAS glass-ceramics gets the largest value of 3.5 J/cm 3 which is about 1.8 times compared to the undoped one.