Synthesis of zinc oxide varistors with a breakdown voltage of three volts using an intergranular glass phase in the bismuth-boron-oxide system

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 83, Issue 23, 2003, Pages 4857-4859

  Ohashi, Naoki ^a   Kataoka, Ken ^a,b   Ohgaki, Takeshi ^a   Miyagi, Takahira ^a,c   Haneda, Hajime ^a,b   Morinaga, Kenji ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Japan)

^b KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c WASEDA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BISMUTH COMPOUNDS; COBALT; DIELECTRIC PROPERTIES OF SOLIDS; ELECTRIC BREAKDOWN; GLASS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SEMICONDUCTOR DOPING; SEMICONDUCTOR JUNCTIONS; SINGLE CRYSTALS; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL); X RAY DIFFRACTION ANALYSIS; ZINC OXIDE;

CURRENT TRANSPORT; SURGE FILTERS;

VARISTORS;

EID: 0346306306     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1632030     Document Type: Article

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