AN INVESTIGATION OF SOME BARIUM TITANATE COMPOSITIONS FOR TRANSDUCER APPLICATIONS

Abstract

The most important factor limiting the use of barium titanate in high power electroacoustic transducer applications is the large dielectric loss in high exciting fields. It has been shown that the addition of cobalt to 5% calcium, 95% barium titanate compositions produces a large reduction in the loss in high fields without significantly affecting the piezoelectric constants of polarized ceramic.