Journal of Inorganic Materials, Volume. 40, Issue 6, 683(2025)

Application of Electron Energy-loss Spectroscopy to BaTiO3 Multi-layer Ceramic Capacitors

Lukang WU1, Zhengqian FU1, Ziyi YU1, Jun YANG2, Bin ZHOU1, Xuefeng CHEN1, and Fangfang XU1、*
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  • 11. Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200050, China
  • 22. Shenzhen Yuyang Technology Development Co., Ltd., Shenzhen 523686, China
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    (a) Schematic illustration of interaction between high-energy incident electrons and sample within TEM; (b) Principles of EDS and EELS
    (a) Low magnified high angle annular dark field (HAADF) image of MLCC (yellow line is Ni electrode, red line is BaTiO3 dielectric layer); (b) Example area for grain size statistics and average grain size statistics
    (a) HAADF image of EDS mapping region; (b) EDS spectra (brown peaks marking the overlap of Ba-L and Ti-K peaks); (c) EDS surface distributions of Ba, Ti, O, and Ni
    EDS and EELS spectra of the same microregion of MLCC samples
    (a) Microregion TEM image of MLCC cross-section sample; (b) EELS spectrum of BaTiO3 single grain identified in (a); (c) Average Ba/Ti atomic ratios of 100 BaTiO3 grains
    HAADF image of BaTiO3 single grain subjected to EELS line analysis and Ba/Ti ratios measured by line scanning (orange line indicating position of the line sweep)
    EELS Ti-L2,3 edge fine structures of BaTiO3 grains with different sizes
    (a) Example HAADF image of dielectric-embedded electrodes; (b-g) EELS spectra for six random embedding positions (indicated by arrows in (a))
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    Lukang WU, Zhengqian FU, Ziyi YU, Jun YANG, Bin ZHOU, Xuefeng CHEN, Fangfang XU. Application of Electron Energy-loss Spectroscopy to BaTiO3 Multi-layer Ceramic Capacitors [J]. Journal of Inorganic Materials, 2025, 40(6): 683

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    Received: Jan. 15, 2025

    Accepted: --

    Published Online: Sep. 2, 2025

    The Author Email: Fangfang XU (ffxu@mail.sic.ac.cn)

    DOI:10.15541/jim20250021

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