US Government As Represented by the Secretary of the Army

Michelina E O'Day

Louise C Sengupta

Steven Stowell

Eric Ngo

Robert Lancto

Somnath Sengupta

Thomas V Hynes

A laminated ceramic ferroelectric material has adjacent layers of Barium ontium Titanate (BSTO)--oxide composite stacked in order of descending oxide content and sized in thickness to produce a generally equal capacitance across each layer, resulting in a material having a graded dielectric constant for use in phased array antenna, for example. The oxides are from the metallic oxide group consisting of alumina, zirconia and magnesia and the layers are produced by tape casting.

Electronically graded multilayer ferroelectric composites

A novel ceramic ferroelectric material having a low dielectric constant, loss and high tunability. The material is a composite comprising Barium Strontium Titanate (BSTO) and a ceramic material having a low dielectric constant. The preferred composite is represented by Ba.sub.1-x Sr.sub.x TiO.sub.3 --ZrO.sub.2, wherein x is greater than 0.00, but less than or equal to 0.70, and wherein the percent weight ratio between Ba.sub.1-x Sr.sub.x TiO.sub.3 and ZrO.sub.2 ranges from approximately 99%-40% and 1%-60%, respectively. The novel materials possess superior electronic properties; and they may be employed in various antenna systems.

Ceramic ferroelectric composite material - BSTO-ZrO.sub.2

A novel ceramic ferroelectric material having a low dielectric constant, extremely low loss and high tunability. The material is a composite comprising Barium Strontium Titanate (BSTO) and a ceramic material having a low dielectric constant. The preferred composite is represented by Ba.sub.1-x Sr.sub.x TiO.sub.3 --MgO, wherein x is greater than 0.00, but less than or equal to 0.75, and wherein the percent weight ratio between Ba.sub.1-x Sr.sub.x TiO.sub.3 and MgO ranges from approximately 99%-40% and 1%-60%, respectively. The novel materials possess superior electronic properties; and they may be employed in various antenna systems at both microwave and millimeter wave range frequencies.

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Michelina E O'Day