The phase noise of an oscillator with a thin-film barium strontium titanate (BST) capacitive tuning element, or varactor, is characterised and benchmarked against the same oscillator with a silicon semiconductor junction varactor. Phase noise tracks closely with varactor Q within a specific voltage range as expected. Compared to the semiconductor varactor-based oscillator, the BST-based oscilla...

Barium titanate materials displaying a positive temperature coefficient of resistivity are ubiquitously employed as thermistors in electrical current and voltage control systems, well gas thermal sensing applications. The effect is widely accepted to be grain boundary-based phenomenon, although detailed studies on boundary structure chemistry, their influence the resulting properties, seriously...

Particles are important additives for altering and enhancing the properties of polymers. When the particle size approaching the fundamental length scale of the material, new mechanical, optical, and electrical properties arise, which are not present in the conventional macroscopic counterpart. For example, the dielectric constant of a polymer fluid can be increased by addition of ceramic nanopa...

The bias-field-dependent dielectricity of ferroelectric thin films is studied by use of a multilayer model capable of modeling saturated and unsaturated hysteresis behavior under arbitrary fields. The simulated minor hysteresis loops at different bias fields are used to calculate the variation of dielectric permittivity with the bias field. The -E loops show asymmetric shifting along the field ...