Capacitor is an important part of many electronic devices, so the temperature stability as one key parameter of capacitor needs to be improved constantly for meeting the requirements of various application temperature. Here, combined with the X-ray diffraction (XRD), selected area electron diffraction (SAED) and Vienna Ab-initio Simulation Package (VASP) calculation, it was confirmed that Ca ion can substitute the Ti site in the BaTi1-xCaxO3-x [BTC100×] (0 ≤ x ≤ 0.05) ceramics synthesized by solid-phase method which greatly improved the low-temperature stability of dielectric constant. Moreover, introducing Bi3+ and Zn2+ into BTC4 to form (1-y)BaTi0·96Ca0·04O2.96-yBi(Zn0·5Ti0.5)O3 [(1-y)BTC4-yBZT] (0.1 ≤ y ≤ 0.2) ceramics can further improve the dielectric-temperature stability by means of diffused phase transition and core-shell structure. Most importantly, the 0.85BTC4-0.15BZT ceramics with a pseudocubic perovskite structure possessed a temperature coefficient of capacitance at 25 ℃ (TCC25 ℃) being less than ±15% over a wide temperature range of −55 ℃–200 ℃ and a temperate dielectric constant (ε = 1060) and low dielectric loss (tanδ = 1.5%), which measure up to the higher standard in the current capacitor industry such as X9R requirements.
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Dielectric ceramics with high energy storage density and energy efficiency play an important role in high power energy storage applications. In this work, lead free relaxor ferroelectric ceramics in (1-x)Bi0.51Na0.47TiO3- xBa(Zr0.3Ti0.7)O3 (BNT-BZT100x: x = 0.20, 0.30, 0.40 and 0.50) system are fabricated by conventional solid-state sintering method. The BNT-BZT100x ceramics are sintered dense with minimal pores, exhibiting pseudocubic symmetry and strong relaxor characteristic. A high energy storage density of 3.1 J/cm3 and high energy efficiency of 91% are simultaneously achieved in BNT-BZT40 ceramic with 0.1 mm in thickness, at the applied electric field of 280 kV/cm. The temperature stability of the energy density is studied over temperature range of 20–160 ℃, showing minimal variation below 1.5%, together with the excellent cycling reliability (the variations of both energy density and efficiency are below 3% up to 106 cycles), making BNT-BZT40 ceramic promising candidate for high-temperature dielectric and energy storage applications.