Journal of Inorganic Materials

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Low Temperature Sintering of Doped ZnO-V2O5 Varistors

WU Jun1; XIE Chang-Sheng1; HUANG Kai-Jin1; WANG Ai-Hua1; WANG Wen-Yan2   

  1. 1. The State Key Laboratory of Plastic Forming Simulation and Mould Technology; Department of Materials Science and Egineering; Huazhong University of Science and Technology; Wuhan 430074; China; 2. Department of Materials Science & Engineering; Henan University of Science & Technology; Luoyang 471039; China
  • Received:2002-12-23 Revised:2003-03-28 Published:2004-01-20 Online:2004-01-20

Abstract: The low-temperature sintering characteristics and electrical properties of ZnO-V2O5 varistors
were studied through adding oxides with low melting point, which were the lead zinc borate glass frit forming materials. The results show
that the sintering temperature is significantly decreased to 800℃ with conventional electric furnace sintering and the nonlinear
properties are obviously enhanced through adding B2O3 and PbO. When the sample with co-doped 6wt% (PbO+B2O3) sintered at 800℃ for 4h, its
leakage current density JL=7.2×10-6A/cm2 and nonlinear coefficient α=22.5.

Key words: varistor, lead zinc borate glass, low-temperature sintering

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