摘要:
Commercially available niobium (V) oxide Nb
2O
5, with barium acetate Ba(CH
3COO)
2 and magnesium acetate Mg(CH
3COO)
2·4H
2O was used as the starting material in the sol-gel process for preparing Ba(Mg
1/3Nb
2/3)O
3 (BMN) nanopowders.At first, Nb
2O
5 reacted with melting sodium hydroxide and transformed into dispersible oxide. The resulting glassy substance after cooling was dispersed and washed several times in distilled water to remove the Na
+ ions. The as-prepared colloidal Nb
2O
5·
nH
2O was subsequently mixed with acetic solution of barium acetate and magnesium acetate according to the required molar proportions and followed by gelation. The ultrafine BMN powders were finally obtained after heat-treating the gel at 820℃ for 1 h, and the assintered nanoceramics revealed a high relative density of 98.2%, and a high microwave
Q-factor, of 10397 at 1.45GHz.