Issue Eur. Phys. J. Appl. Phys. Volume 46, Number 2, May 2009 Article Number 20404 Number of page(s) 6 Section Physics of Organic Materials and Devices DOI 10.1051/epjap/2009043 Published online 01 April 2009

Eur. Phys. J. Appl. Phys. 46, 20404 (2009)
DOI: 10.1051/epjap/2009043

Dielectric behavior of ternary composites of epoxy/BaTiO₃/(CuO or MgO)

A. Benhamouda¹, J.M. Forniés-Marquina², N. Bouzit¹ and N. Bourouba<sup>1

1</sup>  Laboratoire d'Instrumentation Scientifique (LIS), Département d'Électronique, Faculté des Sciences de l'Ingénieur, Université Ferhat Abbas, 19000 Setif, Algeria
²  Departamento de Fisica Aplicada, Grupo de Electromagnetismo Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Zaragoza, 50009 Zaragoza, Spain

bouzitnacerdine@yahoo.fr

Received: 1st July 2008 / Received in final form: 2 December 2008 / Accepted: 26 January 2009 / Published online: 1st April 2009

Abstract
The work we present in this article is an investigation of the optimal dielectric behaviour of a ternary composite based on a mixture of epoxy resin, titanates and oxides. Titanates are known by their capacity to provide high dielectric constant values that make their use very important in system of telecommunication, transmission microwaves, and in integrated circuit technology. A comparative study is established on two types of oxides added to titanates of either calcium, barium, or magnesium following different proportions. The protocol used to characterise different mixtures is the Time Domain Reflectometry (TDR). The acquired results show a good concordance between the experimental values of the ternary mixture dielectric constant and the theoretical models deduced from the Lichtenecker modified law. The copper oxide (CuO) is revealed to be more influential than the magnesium oxide (MgO) on the added titanate because of an insignificant dielectric behaviour that the latter presents. On the other hand, the linear behaviour of appeared with a CuO concentration round about 15% in a RE.BT.CuO mixture. For a fixed barium titanate fraction (27%) this linear evolution is located between the upper and the lower limits derivative from direct and inverse Wiener laws.

PACS
77.22.Ch - Permittivity.
77.22.Gm - Dielectric loss and relaxation.

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