Abstract:
A glass frit containing Li
2O–MgO–ZnO–B
2O
3–SiO
2 component was used to explore the low-temperature sintering behaviors and microwave dielectric characteristics of tri-rutile MgTa
2O
6 ceramics in this study. The good low-firing effects are presented due to the high matching relevance between Li
2O–MgO–ZnO–B
2O
3–SiO
2 glass and MgTa
2O
6 ceramics. The pure tri-rutile MgTa
2O
6 structure remains unchanged, and high sintering compactness can also be achieved at 1150°C. We found that the Li
2O–MgO–ZnO–B
2O
3–SiO
2 glass not only greatly improves the low-temperature sintering characteristics of MgTa
2O
6 ceramics but also maintains a high (quality factor (
Q) × resonance frequency (
f)) value while still improving the temperature stability. Typically, great microwave dielectric characteristics when added with 2wt% Li
2O–MgO–ZnO–B
2O
3–SiO
2 glass can be achieved at 1150°C: dielectric constant,
εr = 26.1;
Q ×
f = 34267 GHz; temperature coefficient of resonance frequency,
τf = −8.7 × 10
−6 /°C.