We researched the phenomenon that the permittivity of dielectric layers in multilayer ceramic capacitor (MLCC) increases with the number of dielectric layers. Finite element method (FEM) shows that the internal residual stress in MLCC was generated by the difference of thermal expansion coefficient between internal electrodes and dielectric layers. We developed a electric measurement system with applying external stress for understanding the stress influence on dielectric properties. The compressive stress along electric field increased the polarization. The polar nano regions (PNRs) in shell composition dielectrics were easily influenced by stress. Based on these results, the relationship between the number of dielectric layers and their permittivity in MLCCs was explained.
The stacking-layer effect in multilayer ceramic capacitors (MLCCs) is a phenomenon in which the dielectric permittivity of dielectric layers increases with increasing number of layers. To elucidate the mechanism underlying this effect, we performed a simulation of residual stress in MLCCs by the finite element method (FEM) as well as dielectric measurements under uniaxial compressive stress. The FEM analysis revealed that tensile stress along the stacking direction was induced in dielectric layers owing to the difference in thermal expansion coefficient between internal electrodes and dielectric layers. The results of dielectric measurements indicated that the shell part in the dielectrics of MLCCs played an important role in the stress dependence of dielectric properties. The mechanism underlying the stacking-layer effect proposed in this study was based on the enhancement of polarization rotations in polar nanoregions in the relaxor by the tensile stress in dielectric layers.
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