Microwave-hydrothermal processing for synthesis of electroceramic powders

Abstract
Microwave-hydrothermal processing has so far been used only todissolveinorganic solids for chemical analysis. We report herein the use of microwave-hydrothermal processing to synthesize various ceramic powders in binary and polynary systems. We describe the synthesis of some electroceramic powders such as BaTiO3, SrTiO3, Sr0.5Ba0.5TiO3, PbTiO3, BaZrO3, SrZrO3, Pb(Zr0.52Ti0.48)O3, and pyrochlore phases with the Pb(Mg1/3Nb2/3)O3and Pb(Zn1/3Nb2/3)O3compositions by this novel microwave-hydrothermal processing technique.