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- a certain aspect of the present invention relates to a multilayer ceramic capacitor and a manufacturing method of a multilayer ceramic capacitor.
- a thickness of a dielectric layer is being reduced because downsizing and enhancement of a capacitance of a multilayer ceramic capacitor are demanded. As a result, electric field intensity applied to the dielectric layer increases. Thereby, life property of the dielectric layer is degraded. And so, it is proposed that a donor element such as Mo (molybdenum), W (tungsten) or the like is added to a dielectric layer in order to improve life property (for example, see Japanese Patent Application Publications No. 2016-139720 and No. 2016-127120).
- a position of the donor element in the dielectric layer is not defined.
- the donor element exists in a crystal grain of main component ceramic of the dielectric layer, the donor element contributes to the life property of the dielectric layer.
- a donor element existing in a crystal boundary does not contribute to the life property of the dielectric layer. Therefore, even if a concentration of the donor element of a whole of the dielectric layer is defined, preferable life property is not achieved.
- the present invention has a purpose of providing a multilayer ceramic capacitor and a manufacturing method of the multilayer ceramic capacitor that are capable of achieving preferable life property of a dielectric layer.
- a multilayer ceramic capacitor including: a multilayer structure in which each of a plurality of ceramic dielectric layers and each of a plurality of internal electrode layers are alternately stacked, wherein: (a current value at 10 V/ ⁇ m when a direct voltage is applied to the plurality of the ceramic dielectric layers at 125 degrees C.)/(a current value at 10 V/ ⁇ m when a direct voltage is applied to the plurality of the ceramic dielectric layers at 85 degrees C.) is more than 5 and less than 20; and a donor element concentration in the plurality of ceramic dielectric layers is 0.05 atm % or more and 0.3 atm % or less.
- a manufacturing method of a multilayer ceramic capacitor including: forming a green sheet of which a concentration of a donor element with respect to a main component ceramic is 0.05 atm % or more and 0.3 atm % or less; forming a multilayer structure by alternately stacking the green sheet and a conductive paste for forming an internal electrode; and baking the multilayer structure, wherein the multilayer structure is sintered in the baking so that, in the multilayer structure after the baking, (a current value at 10 V/ ⁇ m when a direct voltage is applied to the plurality of the ceramic dielectric layers at 125 degrees C.)/(a current value at 10 V/ ⁇ m when a direct voltage is applied to the plurality of the ceramic dielectric layers at 85 degrees C.) becomes more than 5 and less than 20.
- FIG. 1 illustrates a partial perspective view of a multilayer ceramic capacitor
- FIG. 2 illustrates a flowchart of a manufacturing method of a multilayer ceramic capacitor
- FIG. 3A and FIG. 3B illustrate a relationship between temperature change coefficients (125 degrees C./85 degrees C.) and accelerated life values of examples 1 to 5 and comparative examples 1 and 2.
- FIG. 4 illustrates a relationship among a temperature change, a leak current value and an applied voltage of a multilayer ceramic capacitor of a comparative example 1;
- FIG. 5 illustrates a relationship among a temperature change, a leak current value and an applied voltage of a multilayer ceramic capacitor of an example 1;
- FIG. 6 illustrates a relationship among a temperature change, a leak current value and an applied voltage of a multilayer ceramic capacitor of an example 4.
- FIG. 1 illustrates a partial perspective view of a multilayer ceramic capacitor 100 in accordance with an embodiment.
- the multilayer ceramic capacitor 100 includes a multilayer chip 10 having a rectangular parallelepiped shape, and a pair of external electrodes 20 a and 20 b that are respectively provided at two edge faces of the multilayer chip 10 facing each other.
- two faces other than an upper face and a lower face of the multilayer chip 10 in a stacking direction are referred to as side faces.
- the external electrodes 20 a and 20 b extend to the upper face, the lower face and the two side faces. However, the external electrodes 20 a and 20 b are spaced from each other.
- the multilayer chip 10 has a structure designed to have dielectric layers 11 and internal electrode layers 12 alternately stacked.
- the dielectric layer 11 includes ceramic material acting as a dielectric material.
- the internal electrode layers 12 include a base metal material. End edges of the internal electrode layers 12 are alternately exposed to a first edge face of the multilayer chip 10 and a second edge face of the multilayer chip 10 that is different from the first edge face. In the embodiment, the first face faces with the second face.
- the external electrode 20 a is provided on the first edge face.
- the external electrode 20 b is provided on the second edge face.
- the internal electrode layers 12 are alternately conducted to the external electrode 20 a and the external electrode 20 b .
- the multilayer ceramic capacitor 100 has a structure in which a plurality of dielectric layers 11 are stacked and each two of the dielectric layers 11 sandwich the internal electrode layer 12 .
- the internal electrode layer 12 is positioned at an outermost layer.
- the upper face and the lower face of the multilayer chip 10 that are the internal electrode layers 12 are covered by cover layers 13 .
- a main component of the cover layer 13 is a ceramic material.
- a main component of the cover layer 13 is the same as that of the dielectric layer 11 .
- the multilayer ceramic capacitor 100 may have a length of 0.2 mm, a width of 0.125 mm and a height of 0.125 mm.
- the multilayer ceramic capacitor 100 may have a length of 0.4 mm, a width of 0.2 mm and a height of 0.2 mm.
- the multilayer ceramic capacitor 100 may have a length of 0.6 mm, a width of 0.3 mm and a height of 0.3 mm.
- the multilayer ceramic capacitor 100 may have a length of 1.0 mm, a width of 0.5 mm and a height of 0.5 mm.
- the multilayer ceramic capacitor 100 may have a length of 3.2 mm, a width of 1.6 mm and a height of 1.6 mm.
- the multilayer ceramic capacitor 100 may have a length of 4.5 mm, a width of 3.2 mm and a height of 2.5 mm.
- the size of the multilayer ceramic capacitor 100 is not limited.
- a main component of the internal electrode layers 12 is a base metal such as nickel (Ni), copper (Cu), tin (Sn) or the like.
- the internal electrode layers 12 may be made of a noble metal such as platinum (Pt), palladium (Pd), silver (Ag), gold (Au) or alloy thereof.
- the dielectric layers 11 are mainly composed of a ceramic material that is expressed by a general formula ABO 3 and has a perovskite structure.
- the perovskite structure includes ABO 3-a having an off-stoichiometric composition.
- the ceramic material is such as BaTiO 3 (barium titanate), CaZrO 3 (calcium zirconate), CaTiO 3 (calcium titanate), SrTiO 3 (strontium titanate), Ba 1-x-y Ca x Sr y Ti 1-z Zr z O 3 (0 ⁇ x ⁇ 1, 0 ⁇ y ⁇ 1, 0 ⁇ z ⁇ 1) having a perovskite structure.
- the dielectric layer 11 has a thickness of 1 ⁇ m or less or a thickness of 0.8 ⁇ m or less.
- the dielectric layer 11 includes a donor element.
- the donor element is an element that can be replaced with an A site of the perovskite ABO 3 and can become an ion of which valence is three (a part of rare earth elements such as Y (yttrium), La (lanthanum), Sm (samarium), Gd (gadolinium), Dy (dysprosium) or Ho (Holmium)) or an element that can be replaced with a B site of the perovskite ABO 3 and can become ion of which valence is five or more (a part of transition metals such as V (vanadium), Mo (molybdenum), Nb (niobium), W (tungsten) or Ta (tantalum)).
- the main component ceramic of the dielectric layer 11 is a perovskite
- V (vanadium), Mo, Nb, La, Ta or the like can be used as the donor element.
- the dielectric layer 11 includes a donor element, generation of an oxygen defect can be suppressed. Therefore, life property of the dielectric layer 11 is improved.
- the donor element concentration of the dielectric layer 11 is excessively low, it may not be possible to achieve the effect of the donor element sufficiently. And so, in the embodiment, the concentration of the donor element in the dielectric layer 11 is 0.05 atm % or more.
- the donor element concentration of the dielectric layer 11 is excessively high, insulating property may be degraded or the bias property may be degraded in accordance with solid-solution of the donor element. And so, in the embodiment, the donor element concentration in the dielectric layer 11 is 0.3 atm % or less. “atm %” means a concentration “atm %” of the donor element on the presumption that the B site is 100 atm %.
- the main component ceramic of the dielectric layer 11 is not structured with a single crystal grain but includes a plurality of crystal grains. Therefore, the donor element may be equally dispersed in crystal grains and crystal grain boundaries or may be mainly dispersed in the crystal grain boundaries. When the donor element exists in the crystal grains of the main component ceramic, the donor element suppresses the oxygen defect. Therefore, even if the donor element concentration in the dielectric layer 11 is 0.05 atm % or more and 0.3 atm % or less, the donor element does not always contribute to the life property of the dielectric layer 11 .
- a current value at 10 V/ ⁇ m when a direct voltage is applied to the dielectric layer 11 at 125 degrees C. is used as the temperature change coefficient of the leak current.
- the temperature change coefficient is referred to as a temperature change coefficient (125 degrees C./85 degrees C.).
- the temperature change coefficient (125 degrees C./85 degrees C.) When the temperature change coefficient (125 degrees C./85 degrees C.) is small, an amount of the donor element in the main component ceramic grains of the dielectric layer 11 is small. In this case, may be, preferable life property of the dielectric layer 11 is not achieved. And so, the temperature change coefficient (125 degrees C./85 degrees C.) is increased to more than a predetermined value. On the other hand, when the temperature change coefficient (125 degrees C./85 degrees C.) is large, the amount of the donor element in the main component ceramic grains of the dielectric layer 11 is large. In this case, insulating property and bias property of the dielectric layer 11 may be degraded. And so, the temperature change coefficient (125 degrees C./85 degrees C.) is decreased to less than a predetermined value.
- the temperature change coefficient (125 degrees C./85 degrees C.) is more than 5 and less than 20. It is therefore possible to suppress the leak current and improve the life property. And, it is preferable that the temperature change coefficient (125 degrees C./85 degrees C.) is more than 6 and less than 15.
- the dielectric layer 11 in which a voltage difference occurs has preferable life property. Therefore, at least a part of the dielectric layer 11 having an electrical capacity of the multilayer ceramic capacitor 100 has preferable life property. And so, the dielectric layer 11 in a region in which the internal electrode layer 12 connected to the external electrode 20 a faces with the internal electrode layer 12 connected to the external electrode 20 b includes a donor element of which concentration is 0.05 atm % or more and 0.3 atm % or less, and has property of 5 ⁇ the temperature change coefficient (125 degrees C./85 degrees C.) ⁇ 20.
- an average grain diameter of the main component ceramic of the dielectric layer 11 When an average grain diameter of the main component ceramic of the dielectric layer 11 is small, a dielectric constant becomes smaller. And, maybe, a preferable electrostatic capacitance is not achieved. And so, it is preferable that an average grain diameter of the main component ceramic of the dielectric layer 11 is 80 nm or more. On the other hand, when the average grain diameter of the main component ceramic of the dielectric layer 11 is large, an area of grain boundaries acting as a movement barrier of oxygen defects is reduced in the dielectric layer 11 having a thickness of 1 m or less and the life property may be degraded. And so, it is preferable that the average grain diameter of the main component ceramic of the dielectric layer 11 is 200 nm or less.
- the grain diameters are Feret diameters that are measured by adjusting a scale factor so that a single image of a scanning electron microscope or a transmission electron microscope includes 80 to 150 crystal grains, capturing a plurality of images so that a total number of the crystal grains is 400 or more, and measuring all Feret diameters of all of the crystal grains on the images.
- the average grain diameter is an average of the Feret diameters.
- FIG. 2 illustrates a manufacturing method of the multilayer ceramic capacitor 100 .
- a ceramic material powder is prepared as a main component of the dielectric layer 11 .
- a donor element may be included in the dielectric layer 11 by mixing a ceramic material and a donor element source. However, it is preferable that a ceramic material in which a donor element is solid-solved in advance is used.
- the donor element is Mo
- Mo compound such as MoO 3 may be used as the donor element source.
- additive compound may be added to ceramic powder material, in accordance with purposes.
- the additive compound may be an oxide of Mg (magnesium), Mn (manganese), V (vanadium), Cr (chromium) or a rare earth element (Y (yttrium), Dy (dysprosium), Tm (thulium), Ho (holmium), Tb (terbium), Yb (ytterbium), Sm (samarium), Eu (europium), Gd (gadolinium) and Er (erbium)), or an oxide of Co (cobalt), Ni (nickel), Li (lithium), B (boron), Na (sodium), K (potassium) and Si (silicon), or glass.
- compound including additive compound is added to a ceramic material powder and is calcined. Next, the resulting ceramic material grains are wet-blended with additive compound, is dried and is crushed. Thus, the ceramic material powder is prepared.
- a binder such as polyvinyl butyral (PVB) resin, an organic solvent such as ethanol or toluene, and a plasticizer such as dioctyl phthalate (DOP) are added to the resulting ceramic material powder and wet-blended.
- a strip-shaped dielectric green sheet with a thickness of 0.8 ⁇ m or less is coated on a base material by, for example, a die coater method or a doctor blade method, and then dried.
- a pattern of the internal electrode layer 12 is provided on the surface of the dielectric green sheet by printing a conductive paste for forming the internal electrode with use of screen printing or gravure printing.
- the conductive paste includes powder of the main component metal of the internal electrode layer 12 , a binder, a solvent, and additives as needed. It is preferable that the binder and the solvent are different from those of the above-mentioned ceramic slurry. As a co-material, the ceramic material that is the main component of the dielectric layer 11 may be distributed in the conductive paste.
- the dielectric green sheet on which the internal electrode layer pattern is printed is stamped into a predetermined size, and a predetermined number (for example, 200 to 500) of stamped dielectric green sheets are stacked while the base material is peeled so that the internal electrode layers 12 and the dielectric layers 11 are alternated with each other and the end edges of the internal electrode layers 12 are alternately exposed to both edge faces in the length direction of the dielectric layer so as to be alternately led out to a pair of external electrodes of different polarizations.
- a predetermined number for example, 200 to 500
- Cover sheets which are to be the cover layers 13 , are compressed on the stacked green sheets and under the stacked sheets.
- the resulting compact is cut into a predetermined size (for example, 1.0 mm ⁇ 0.5 mm).
- a ceramic multilayer structure having a rectangular parallelepiped shape is obtained.
- the resulting ceramic multilayer structure is baked for ten minutes to 2 hours in a reductive atmosphere in a temperature range of 1100 degrees C. to 1300 degrees C.
- each compound structuring the dielectric green sheet is sintered.
- a sintered structure having the multilayer chip 10 having the multilayer structure in which the sintered dielectric layers 11 and the sintered internal electrode layers 12 are alternately stacked and having the cover layers 13 formed as outermost layers of the multilayer chip 10 in the stack direction is obtained.
- a re-oxidizing process may be performed at 600 degrees C. to 1000 degrees C. in N 2 gas atmosphere.
- barium titanate was used as the main component ceramic of the dielectric layer 11 .
- Mo was used as the donor element.
- MoO 3 was added to the main component ceramic powder so that Mo is 0.2 atm % on a presumption that Ti of the main component ceramic powder is 100 atm %.
- the resulting main component ceramic powder was sufficiently wet-blended and crushed with a ball mil.
- An organic binder and a solvent were added to the dielectric material.
- dielectric green sheets were made by a doctor blade method.
- the organic binder was polyvinyl butyral (PVB) resin or the like.
- the solvent was ethanol, toluene or the like. And a plasticizer and so on were added.
- the conductive paste for forming the internal electrode layer 12 was made by mixing powder acting as a main component metal of the internal electrode layer 12 , a binder, a solvent and an additive as needed.
- the organic binder and the solvent were different from those of the dielectric green sheet.
- the conductive paste was screen-printed on the dielectric sheet. 500 of the dielectric green sheets on which the conductive paste for forming the internal electrode layer were stacked, and cover sheets were stacked on the stacked dielectric green sheets and under the stacked dielectric green sheets.
- a ceramic multilayer structure was obtained by a thermal compressing. And the ceramic multilayer structure was cut into a predetermined size.
- the thickness of the dielectric layer 11 after the baking was 0.8 m.
- a main component ceramic powder in which 0.05 atm % of Mo was solid-solved in advance was used as the dielectric material.
- a Mo source was not added to the main component ceramic powder.
- Other conditions were the same as those of the example 1.
- a main component ceramic powder in which 0.1 atm % of Mo was solid-solved in advance was used as the dielectric material.
- a Mo source was not added to the main component ceramic powder.
- Other conditions were the same as those of the example 1.
- a main component ceramic powder in which 0.2 atm % of Mo was solid-solved in advance was used as the dielectric material.
- a Mo source was not added to the main component ceramic powder.
- Other conditions were the same as those of the example 1.
- a main component ceramic powder in which 0.3 atm % of Mo was solid-solved in advance was used as the dielectric material.
- a Mo source was not added to the main component ceramic powder.
- Other conditions were the same as those of the example 1.
- a Mo source was not added to a main component ceramic powder.
- Other condition were the same as those of the example 1.
- a main component ceramic powder in which 0.35 atm % of Mo was solid-solved in advance was used as the dielectric material.
- a Mo source was not added to the main component ceramic powder.
- Other conditions were the same as those of the example 1.
- FIG. 3A illustrates a relationship between temperature change coefficients (125 degrees C./85 degrees C.) and accelerated life values of the examples 1 to 5 and the comparative examples 1 and 2.
- the accelerated life values are expressed as MTTF (Mean Time To Failure).
- the accelerated life value was measured by applying a direct voltage of 10 V between the external electrode 20 a and the external electrode 20 b at 125 degrees C., measuring a leak current value with an ampere meter, and measuring a time to a dielectric breakdown.
- the mean time to failure is an average of times to the dielectric breakdown of 20 numbers of the multilayer ceramic capacitors.
- the temperature change coefficient (125 degrees C./85 degrees C.) As illustrated in FIG. 3A , a correlation occurs between the temperature change coefficient (125 degrees C./85 degrees C.) and the accelerated life values.
- the temperature change coefficient (125 degrees C./85 degrees C.) was approximately 2 that was a small value.
- the accelerated life value was 200 min or less that was a small value. Therefore, a preferable life value was not achieved.
- the temperature change coefficient (125 degrees C./85 degrees C.) was approximately 5 that was a relatively large value.
- the accelerated life value was approximately 200 min to 300 min that was a long life property.
- the temperature change coefficient (125 degrees C./85 degrees C.) was 7 to 20 that was a larger value than that of the example 1.
- the accelerated life value was approximately 200 min to 1200 min that was a larger value than that of the example 1.
- the temperature change coefficient (125 degrees C./85 degrees C.) was more than 20 as in the case of the Comparative example 2
- the leak current value at 85 degrees C. increased by two orders or more with respect to the barium titanate in which Mo was not added, as illustrated in FIG. 3B .
- the donor element concentration in the dielectric layer 11 is 0.05 atm % to 0.3 atm % and the temperature change coefficient (125 degrees C./85 degrees C.) is more than 5 and less than 20, it is possible to suppress the leak current and it is possible to improve the life property.
- FIG. 4 illustrates a relationship among a temperature change, a leak current value and an applied voltage of the multilayer ceramic capacitor 100 of the comparative example 1.
- a donor element was not added to the dielectric layer 11 , there was little changing of the leak current value with respect to the temperature. It is thought that this is because a donor element was not solid-solved in crystal grains of the main component ceramic of the dielectric layer 11 .
- FIG. 5 illustrates a relationship among a temperature change, a leak current value and an applied voltage in the multilayer ceramic capacitor 100 of the example 1.
- a temperature change appears in the leak current value. It is thought this because a part of donor elements were solid-solved in crystal grains of the main component ceramic of the dielectric layer 11 .
- FIG. 6 illustrates a relationship among a temperature change, a leak current value and an applied voltage in the multilayer ceramic capacitor 100 of the example 4.
- a total added amount of Mo in the dielectric layer 11 in the example 1 was the same as that in the example 4.
- the changing of the leak current value with respect to the temperature became larger than FIG. 5 . It is thought that this is because the barium titanate in which a donor element was solid-solved in advance was used, and a lot of donor elements exist in crystal grains of the main component ceramic of the dielectric layer 11 . From the results of FIG. 4 to FIG. 6 , it is demonstrated that when the main component ceramic powder in which a donor element was solid-solved in advance was used, a lot of donor elements exist in crystal grains.
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- This application is a divisional application of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 15/889,071, filed on Feb. 5, 2018, which is based upon and claims the benefit of priority of the prior Japanese Patent Application No. 2017-027330, filed on Feb. 16, 2017, the entire contents of both of which are incorporated herein by reference.
- A certain aspect of the present invention relates to a multilayer ceramic capacitor and a manufacturing method of a multilayer ceramic capacitor.
- A thickness of a dielectric layer is being reduced because downsizing and enhancement of a capacitance of a multilayer ceramic capacitor are demanded. As a result, electric field intensity applied to the dielectric layer increases. Thereby, life property of the dielectric layer is degraded. And so, it is proposed that a donor element such as Mo (molybdenum), W (tungsten) or the like is added to a dielectric layer in order to improve life property (for example, see Japanese Patent Application Publications No. 2016-139720 and No. 2016-127120).
- However, in the technologies, a position of the donor element in the dielectric layer is not defined. When the donor element exists in a crystal grain of main component ceramic of the dielectric layer, the donor element contributes to the life property of the dielectric layer. A donor element existing in a crystal boundary does not contribute to the life property of the dielectric layer. Therefore, even if a concentration of the donor element of a whole of the dielectric layer is defined, preferable life property is not achieved.
- The present invention has a purpose of providing a multilayer ceramic capacitor and a manufacturing method of the multilayer ceramic capacitor that are capable of achieving preferable life property of a dielectric layer.
- According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided a multilayer ceramic capacitor including: a multilayer structure in which each of a plurality of ceramic dielectric layers and each of a plurality of internal electrode layers are alternately stacked, wherein: (a current value at 10 V/μm when a direct voltage is applied to the plurality of the ceramic dielectric layers at 125 degrees C.)/(a current value at 10 V/μm when a direct voltage is applied to the plurality of the ceramic dielectric layers at 85 degrees C.) is more than 5 and less than 20; and a donor element concentration in the plurality of ceramic dielectric layers is 0.05 atm % or more and 0.3 atm % or less.
- According to another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a manufacturing method of a multilayer ceramic capacitor including: forming a green sheet of which a concentration of a donor element with respect to a main component ceramic is 0.05 atm % or more and 0.3 atm % or less; forming a multilayer structure by alternately stacking the green sheet and a conductive paste for forming an internal electrode; and baking the multilayer structure, wherein the multilayer structure is sintered in the baking so that, in the multilayer structure after the baking, (a current value at 10 V/μm when a direct voltage is applied to the plurality of the ceramic dielectric layers at 125 degrees C.)/(a current value at 10 V/μm when a direct voltage is applied to the plurality of the ceramic dielectric layers at 85 degrees C.) becomes more than 5 and less than 20.
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FIG. 1 illustrates a partial perspective view of a multilayer ceramic capacitor; -
FIG. 2 illustrates a flowchart of a manufacturing method of a multilayer ceramic capacitor; -
FIG. 3A andFIG. 3B illustrate a relationship between temperature change coefficients (125 degrees C./85 degrees C.) and accelerated life values of examples 1 to 5 and comparative examples 1 and 2. -
FIG. 4 illustrates a relationship among a temperature change, a leak current value and an applied voltage of a multilayer ceramic capacitor of a comparative example 1; -
FIG. 5 illustrates a relationship among a temperature change, a leak current value and an applied voltage of a multilayer ceramic capacitor of an example 1; and -
FIG. 6 illustrates a relationship among a temperature change, a leak current value and an applied voltage of a multilayer ceramic capacitor of an example 4. - A description will be given of an embodiment with reference to the accompanying drawings.
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FIG. 1 illustrates a partial perspective view of a multilayerceramic capacitor 100 in accordance with an embodiment. As illustrated inFIG. 1 , the multilayerceramic capacitor 100 includes amultilayer chip 10 having a rectangular parallelepiped shape, and a pair ofexternal electrodes multilayer chip 10 facing each other. In four faces other than the two edge faces of themultilayer chip 10, two faces other than an upper face and a lower face of themultilayer chip 10 in a stacking direction are referred to as side faces. Theexternal electrodes external electrodes - The
multilayer chip 10 has a structure designed to havedielectric layers 11 andinternal electrode layers 12 alternately stacked. Thedielectric layer 11 includes ceramic material acting as a dielectric material. Theinternal electrode layers 12 include a base metal material. End edges of theinternal electrode layers 12 are alternately exposed to a first edge face of themultilayer chip 10 and a second edge face of themultilayer chip 10 that is different from the first edge face. In the embodiment, the first face faces with the second face. Theexternal electrode 20 a is provided on the first edge face. Theexternal electrode 20 b is provided on the second edge face. Thus, theinternal electrode layers 12 are alternately conducted to theexternal electrode 20 a and theexternal electrode 20 b. Thus, the multilayerceramic capacitor 100 has a structure in which a plurality ofdielectric layers 11 are stacked and each two of thedielectric layers 11 sandwich theinternal electrode layer 12. In themultilayer chip 10, theinternal electrode layer 12 is positioned at an outermost layer. The upper face and the lower face of themultilayer chip 10 that are theinternal electrode layers 12 are covered bycover layers 13. A main component of thecover layer 13 is a ceramic material. For example, a main component of thecover layer 13 is the same as that of thedielectric layer 11. - For example, the multilayer
ceramic capacitor 100 may have a length of 0.2 mm, a width of 0.125 mm and a height of 0.125 mm. The multilayerceramic capacitor 100 may have a length of 0.4 mm, a width of 0.2 mm and a height of 0.2 mm. The multilayerceramic capacitor 100 may have a length of 0.6 mm, a width of 0.3 mm and a height of 0.3 mm. The multilayerceramic capacitor 100 may have a length of 1.0 mm, a width of 0.5 mm and a height of 0.5 mm. The multilayerceramic capacitor 100 may have a length of 3.2 mm, a width of 1.6 mm and a height of 1.6 mm. The multilayerceramic capacitor 100 may have a length of 4.5 mm, a width of 3.2 mm and a height of 2.5 mm. However, the size of the multilayerceramic capacitor 100 is not limited. - A main component of the
internal electrode layers 12 is a base metal such as nickel (Ni), copper (Cu), tin (Sn) or the like. Theinternal electrode layers 12 may be made of a noble metal such as platinum (Pt), palladium (Pd), silver (Ag), gold (Au) or alloy thereof. Thedielectric layers 11 are mainly composed of a ceramic material that is expressed by a general formula ABO3 and has a perovskite structure. The perovskite structure includes ABO3-a having an off-stoichiometric composition. For example, the ceramic material is such as BaTiO3 (barium titanate), CaZrO3 (calcium zirconate), CaTiO3 (calcium titanate), SrTiO3 (strontium titanate), Ba1-x-yCaxSryTi1-zZrzO3 (0≤x≤1, 0≤y≤1, 0≤z≤1) having a perovskite structure. For example, thedielectric layer 11 has a thickness of 1 μm or less or a thickness of 0.8 μm or less. - The
dielectric layer 11 includes a donor element. The donor element is an element that can be replaced with an A site of the perovskite ABO3 and can become an ion of which valence is three (a part of rare earth elements such as Y (yttrium), La (lanthanum), Sm (samarium), Gd (gadolinium), Dy (dysprosium) or Ho (Holmium)) or an element that can be replaced with a B site of the perovskite ABO3 and can become ion of which valence is five or more (a part of transition metals such as V (vanadium), Mo (molybdenum), Nb (niobium), W (tungsten) or Ta (tantalum)). For example, when the main component ceramic of thedielectric layer 11 is a perovskite, V (vanadium), Mo, Nb, La, Ta or the like can be used as the donor element. When thedielectric layer 11 includes a donor element, generation of an oxygen defect can be suppressed. Therefore, life property of thedielectric layer 11 is improved. When the donor element concentration of thedielectric layer 11 is excessively low, it may not be possible to achieve the effect of the donor element sufficiently. And so, in the embodiment, the concentration of the donor element in thedielectric layer 11 is 0.05 atm % or more. On the other hand, when the donor element concentration of thedielectric layer 11 is excessively high, insulating property may be degraded or the bias property may be degraded in accordance with solid-solution of the donor element. And so, in the embodiment, the donor element concentration in thedielectric layer 11 is 0.3 atm % or less. “atm %” means a concentration “atm %” of the donor element on the presumption that the B site is 100 atm %. - The main component ceramic of the
dielectric layer 11 is not structured with a single crystal grain but includes a plurality of crystal grains. Therefore, the donor element may be equally dispersed in crystal grains and crystal grain boundaries or may be mainly dispersed in the crystal grain boundaries. When the donor element exists in the crystal grains of the main component ceramic, the donor element suppresses the oxygen defect. Therefore, even if the donor element concentration in thedielectric layer 11 is 0.05 atm % or more and 0.3 atm % or less, the donor element does not always contribute to the life property of thedielectric layer 11. - When a temperature increases, electrons are excited to a conduction band in accordance with a donor level of the donor element. In this case, a leak current also increases. When temperature dependence of the leak current is large, the donor element exists in the
dielectric layer 11 and is solid-solved in crystal grains of the main component ceramic. Therefore, when a temperature change coefficient of the leak current is large, the donor element contributes to the life property of thedielectric layer 11. And so, the embodiment focuses on a temperature change coefficient of a leak current. - In concrete, (a current value at 10 V/μm when a direct voltage is applied to the
dielectric layer 11 at 125 degrees C.)/(a current value at 10 V/μm when a direct voltage is applied to thedielectric layer 11 at 85 degrees C.) is used as the temperature change coefficient of the leak current. In the following, the temperature change coefficient is referred to as a temperature change coefficient (125 degrees C./85 degrees C.). - When the temperature change coefficient (125 degrees C./85 degrees C.) is small, an amount of the donor element in the main component ceramic grains of the
dielectric layer 11 is small. In this case, may be, preferable life property of thedielectric layer 11 is not achieved. And so, the temperature change coefficient (125 degrees C./85 degrees C.) is increased to more than a predetermined value. On the other hand, when the temperature change coefficient (125 degrees C./85 degrees C.) is large, the amount of the donor element in the main component ceramic grains of thedielectric layer 11 is large. In this case, insulating property and bias property of thedielectric layer 11 may be degraded. And so, the temperature change coefficient (125 degrees C./85 degrees C.) is decreased to less than a predetermined value. In the embodiment, the temperature change coefficient (125 degrees C./85 degrees C.) is more than 5 and less than 20. It is therefore possible to suppress the leak current and improve the life property. And, it is preferable that the temperature change coefficient (125 degrees C./85 degrees C.) is more than 6 and less than 15. - It is possible to calculate the temperature change coefficient by changing an ambient temperature with use of a thermostatic chamber, applying a direct voltage of 10 V/μm between the
external electrode 20 a and theexternal electrode 20 b, and measuring a leak current after 60 seconds after the applying. - It is preferable that at least a part of the
dielectric layer 11 in which a voltage difference occurs has preferable life property. Therefore, at least a part of thedielectric layer 11 having an electrical capacity of the multilayerceramic capacitor 100 has preferable life property. And so, thedielectric layer 11 in a region in which theinternal electrode layer 12 connected to theexternal electrode 20 a faces with theinternal electrode layer 12 connected to theexternal electrode 20 b includes a donor element of which concentration is 0.05 atm % or more and 0.3 atm % or less, and has property of 5< the temperature change coefficient (125 degrees C./85 degrees C.)<20. - When an average grain diameter of the main component ceramic of the
dielectric layer 11 is small, a dielectric constant becomes smaller. And, maybe, a preferable electrostatic capacitance is not achieved. And so, it is preferable that an average grain diameter of the main component ceramic of thedielectric layer 11 is 80 nm or more. On the other hand, when the average grain diameter of the main component ceramic of thedielectric layer 11 is large, an area of grain boundaries acting as a movement barrier of oxygen defects is reduced in thedielectric layer 11 having a thickness of 1 m or less and the life property may be degraded. And so, it is preferable that the average grain diameter of the main component ceramic of thedielectric layer 11 is 200 nm or less. The grain diameters are Feret diameters that are measured by adjusting a scale factor so that a single image of a scanning electron microscope or a transmission electron microscope includes 80 to 150 crystal grains, capturing a plurality of images so that a total number of the crystal grains is 400 or more, and measuring all Feret diameters of all of the crystal grains on the images. The average grain diameter is an average of the Feret diameters. - Next, a description will be given of a manufacturing method of the multilayer
ceramic capacitor 100.FIG. 2 illustrates a manufacturing method of the multilayerceramic capacitor 100. - (Making Process of Raw Material Powder)
- A ceramic material powder is prepared as a main component of the
dielectric layer 11. A donor element may be included in thedielectric layer 11 by mixing a ceramic material and a donor element source. However, it is preferable that a ceramic material in which a donor element is solid-solved in advance is used. When the donor element is Mo, Mo compound such as MoO3 may be used as the donor element source. - Next, additive compound may be added to ceramic powder material, in accordance with purposes. The additive compound may be an oxide of Mg (magnesium), Mn (manganese), V (vanadium), Cr (chromium) or a rare earth element (Y (yttrium), Dy (dysprosium), Tm (thulium), Ho (holmium), Tb (terbium), Yb (ytterbium), Sm (samarium), Eu (europium), Gd (gadolinium) and Er (erbium)), or an oxide of Co (cobalt), Ni (nickel), Li (lithium), B (boron), Na (sodium), K (potassium) and Si (silicon), or glass. For example, compound including additive compound is added to a ceramic material powder and is calcined. Next, the resulting ceramic material grains are wet-blended with additive compound, is dried and is crushed. Thus, the ceramic material powder is prepared.
- (Stacking Process)
- Next, a binder such as polyvinyl butyral (PVB) resin, an organic solvent such as ethanol or toluene, and a plasticizer such as dioctyl phthalate (DOP) are added to the resulting ceramic material powder and wet-blended. With use of the resulting slurry, a strip-shaped dielectric green sheet with a thickness of 0.8 μm or less is coated on a base material by, for example, a die coater method or a doctor blade method, and then dried.
- Then, a pattern of the
internal electrode layer 12 is provided on the surface of the dielectric green sheet by printing a conductive paste for forming the internal electrode with use of screen printing or gravure printing. The conductive paste includes powder of the main component metal of theinternal electrode layer 12, a binder, a solvent, and additives as needed. It is preferable that the binder and the solvent are different from those of the above-mentioned ceramic slurry. As a co-material, the ceramic material that is the main component of thedielectric layer 11 may be distributed in the conductive paste. - Then, the dielectric green sheet on which the internal electrode layer pattern is printed is stamped into a predetermined size, and a predetermined number (for example, 200 to 500) of stamped dielectric green sheets are stacked while the base material is peeled so that the internal electrode layers 12 and the
dielectric layers 11 are alternated with each other and the end edges of the internal electrode layers 12 are alternately exposed to both edge faces in the length direction of the dielectric layer so as to be alternately led out to a pair of external electrodes of different polarizations. - Cover sheets, which are to be the cover layers 13, are compressed on the stacked green sheets and under the stacked sheets. The resulting compact is cut into a predetermined size (for example, 1.0 mm×0.5 mm). Thus, a ceramic multilayer structure having a rectangular parallelepiped shape is obtained.
- (Baking Process)
- Next, after removing the binder in N2 atmosphere at 250 degrees C. to 500 degrees C., the resulting ceramic multilayer structure is baked for ten minutes to 2 hours in a reductive atmosphere in a temperature range of 1100 degrees C. to 1300 degrees C. Thus, each compound structuring the dielectric green sheet is sintered. In this manner, a sintered structure having the
multilayer chip 10 having the multilayer structure in which the sintereddielectric layers 11 and the sintered internal electrode layers 12 are alternately stacked and having the cover layers 13 formed as outermost layers of themultilayer chip 10 in the stack direction is obtained. - (Re-Oxidizing Process)
- After that, a re-oxidizing process may be performed at 600 degrees C. to 1000 degrees C. in N2 gas atmosphere.
- In an example 1, barium titanate was used as the main component ceramic of the
dielectric layer 11. Mo was used as the donor element. MoO3 was added to the main component ceramic powder so that Mo is 0.2 atm % on a presumption that Ti of the main component ceramic powder is 100 atm %. The resulting main component ceramic powder was sufficiently wet-blended and crushed with a ball mil. Thus, the dielectric material was obtained. An organic binder and a solvent were added to the dielectric material. And dielectric green sheets were made by a doctor blade method. The organic binder was polyvinyl butyral (PVB) resin or the like. The solvent was ethanol, toluene or the like. And a plasticizer and so on were added. Next, the conductive paste for forming theinternal electrode layer 12 was made by mixing powder acting as a main component metal of theinternal electrode layer 12, a binder, a solvent and an additive as needed. The organic binder and the solvent were different from those of the dielectric green sheet. The conductive paste was screen-printed on the dielectric sheet. 500 of the dielectric green sheets on which the conductive paste for forming the internal electrode layer were stacked, and cover sheets were stacked on the stacked dielectric green sheets and under the stacked dielectric green sheets. After that, a ceramic multilayer structure was obtained by a thermal compressing. And the ceramic multilayer structure was cut into a predetermined size. The thickness of thedielectric layer 11 after the baking was 0.8 m. - In an example 2, a main component ceramic powder in which 0.05 atm % of Mo was solid-solved in advance was used as the dielectric material. A Mo source was not added to the main component ceramic powder. Other conditions were the same as those of the example 1.
- In an example 3, a main component ceramic powder in which 0.1 atm % of Mo was solid-solved in advance was used as the dielectric material. A Mo source was not added to the main component ceramic powder. Other conditions were the same as those of the example 1.
- In an example 4, a main component ceramic powder in which 0.2 atm % of Mo was solid-solved in advance was used as the dielectric material. A Mo source was not added to the main component ceramic powder. Other conditions were the same as those of the example 1.
- In an example 5, a main component ceramic powder in which 0.3 atm % of Mo was solid-solved in advance was used as the dielectric material. A Mo source was not added to the main component ceramic powder. Other conditions were the same as those of the example 1.
- In a comparative example 1, a Mo source was not added to a main component ceramic powder. Other condition were the same as those of the example 1.
- In a comparative example 2, a main component ceramic powder in which 0.35 atm % of Mo was solid-solved in advance was used as the dielectric material. A Mo source was not added to the main component ceramic powder. Other conditions were the same as those of the example 1.
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FIG. 3A illustrates a relationship between temperature change coefficients (125 degrees C./85 degrees C.) and accelerated life values of the examples 1 to 5 and the comparative examples 1 and 2. InFIG. 3A , the accelerated life values are expressed as MTTF (Mean Time To Failure). The accelerated life value was measured by applying a direct voltage of 10 V between theexternal electrode 20 a and theexternal electrode 20 b at 125 degrees C., measuring a leak current value with an ampere meter, and measuring a time to a dielectric breakdown. The mean time to failure is an average of times to the dielectric breakdown of 20 numbers of the multilayer ceramic capacitors. - As illustrated in
FIG. 3A , a correlation occurs between the temperature change coefficient (125 degrees C./85 degrees C.) and the accelerated life values. In the comparative example 1 in which a donor element was not added (barium titanate in which Mo was not added), the temperature change coefficient (125 degrees C./85 degrees C.) was approximately 2 that was a small value. And the accelerated life value was 200 min or less that was a small value. Therefore, a preferable life value was not achieved. In the example 1 (barium titanate in which Mo was added) in which the main component ceramic powder and the Mo source were mixed with each other and were baked, the temperature change coefficient (125 degrees C./85 degrees C.) was approximately 5 that was a relatively large value. The accelerated life value was approximately 200 min to 300 min that was a long life property. In the examples 2 to 5 (barium titanate in which Mo was solid-solved) in which the main component ceramic powder in which Mo was solid-solved in advance was sintered, the temperature change coefficient (125 degrees C./85 degrees C.) was 7 to 20 that was a larger value than that of the example 1. The accelerated life value was approximately 200 min to 1200 min that was a larger value than that of the example 1. However, when the temperature change coefficient (125 degrees C./85 degrees C.) was more than 20 as in the case of the Comparative example 2, the leak current value at 85 degrees C. increased by two orders or more with respect to the barium titanate in which Mo was not added, as illustrated inFIG. 3B . - From the results, it is demonstrated that when the donor element concentration in the
dielectric layer 11 is 0.05 atm % to 0.3 atm % and the temperature change coefficient (125 degrees C./85 degrees C.) is more than 5 and less than 20, it is possible to suppress the leak current and it is possible to improve the life property. -
FIG. 4 illustrates a relationship among a temperature change, a leak current value and an applied voltage of the multilayerceramic capacitor 100 of the comparative example 1. As illustrated inFIG. 4 , when a donor element was not added to thedielectric layer 11, there was little changing of the leak current value with respect to the temperature. It is thought that this is because a donor element was not solid-solved in crystal grains of the main component ceramic of thedielectric layer 11. -
FIG. 5 illustrates a relationship among a temperature change, a leak current value and an applied voltage in the multilayerceramic capacitor 100 of the example 1. As illustrated inFIG. 5 , when a donor element was added to thedielectric layer 11, a temperature change appears in the leak current value. It is thought this because a part of donor elements were solid-solved in crystal grains of the main component ceramic of thedielectric layer 11. -
FIG. 6 illustrates a relationship among a temperature change, a leak current value and an applied voltage in the multilayerceramic capacitor 100 of the example 4. A total added amount of Mo in thedielectric layer 11 in the example 1 was the same as that in the example 4. However, as illustrated inFIG. 6 , the changing of the leak current value with respect to the temperature became larger thanFIG. 5 . It is thought that this is because the barium titanate in which a donor element was solid-solved in advance was used, and a lot of donor elements exist in crystal grains of the main component ceramic of thedielectric layer 11. From the results ofFIG. 4 toFIG. 6 , it is demonstrated that when the main component ceramic powder in which a donor element was solid-solved in advance was used, a lot of donor elements exist in crystal grains. - Although the embodiments of the present invention have been described in detail, it is to be understood that the various change, substitutions, and alterations could be made hereto without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention.
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