The abnormal sensitivity and its mechanism of (Ba, Pb)TiO3 semiconductor ceramics
The abnormal sensitivity and its mechanism of （Ba, Pb）TiO3 semiconductor ceramics

The resistance-temperature properties of porous (Ba, Pb)TiO3 semiconductor ceramic were systematically studied. It was found that the resistance of (Ba, Pb)TiO3 ceramic having been placed in the air for a long time was abnormally increased with the increase of the temperature from the room temperature to 70°C prior to the Curie point. Further research showed that this abnormal resistance-temperature property was linked to its humidity sensitivity. When the relative humidity changed from 11% to 93%, the resistance of (Ba, Pb)TiO3 ceramic decreased three orders of magnitude. Furthermore, the humidity-resistance was approximately linear in single logarithm coordinate. According to the surface adsorption, grain-boundary potential barrier and ferroelectric-paraelectric phase transformation, the specific sensitive mechanism of (Ba, Pb)TiO3 ceramic was analyzed qualitatively.