Dielectric Properties of TiO₂-NiO Ceramics and Its Response Mechanism

NiO-NiTiO3 composite ceramics were prepared by the conventional solid state reaction process and dielectric properties were investigated as a function of frequency and temperature. The results indicate that all samples showed high dielectric constant ~103 at 0.1 kHz, but a remarkable decrease of the dielectric loss appeared when the volume fraction of NiTiO3 phase reached 42.4%. Relaxor-like peaks were observed in the temperature dependence of the dielectric constant with ceramics having low composition of NiTiO3 phase (≤21.2%). The possible response mechanism associated with the microstructure and the associated defects of the composites was discussed.