Gd₂O₃ Added Glass-Ceramic Composite for the Improvement of Energy Storage Density through Controlled Crystallization

Abstract

Crystallization of a glass containing high dielectric performance components can be controlled in the nucleation and growth processes in order to meet the requirements of enabling the glass-ceramic dielectric composites to obtain the desired high electric energy storage densitiy. In this paper, the controlled crystallization technique was employed to synthesize glass-ceramic composites with addition of Gd2O3 in BaO-Na2O- Nb2O5- SiO2 glass system. The results show that both the dielectric constant and the breakdown strength of the glass-ceramic composites demonstrate an increasing tendency with the addition of Gd2O3 from 0 mol% to 7 mol% (relative to SiO2), being responsible for remarkable improvement of the energy storage density of the glass-ceramic composites from 1.7 J/cm3 to 4.7 J/cm3.