Essay On Dielectric Constant

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Dielectric parameters measured in the frequency range of 10Hz to 10MHz at room temperature were shown in respective figures. The measure of the ability to store electric charge is called as Dielectric constant. Figure_____ shows the variation of dielectric constant with frequency. It is evident from the figure that with increase in frequency, the dielectric constant has decreased and finally attains constant value at higher frequency. The decrease in dielectric constant in lower frequency region is very fast and becomes slow with increase in frequency. Dielectric constant of ferrites depends upon the conduction process. The fact responsible for this conduction is hopping of electron between Fe2+ and Fe3+ . The polarization observed at grain boundaries due to local charge displacement is mainly due to this hopping of electrton. Such variation of dielectric constant with frequency in ferrites can be explained by Maxwell-Wagner model [16]. According to this model, the dielectric structure of a ferrite material is a combination of two layers. The first layer consists of large ferrite grains and acts as a conductive layer, the other with the grain boundaries that are poor conductors (offer high resistance). By hopping, the electrons heap up at the grain boundaries due to high resistance and results in polarization. This hopping …show more content…

From the figure it is evident that the value of dielectric constant increased upto x=0.03 there after the dielectric constant decreases. This increase in dielectric constant with increase in concentration of Ce3+ and Dy3+ ions may be due to the fact that the RE3+ ion introduction results in the distortion of cobalt ferrite lattice. It also results in an increase in Fe-O and RE-O bond lengths at octahedral B site resulting in an increase in polarizability with a consequent increase in dielectric constant [17,

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