Abstract
In an attempt to obtain finest possible microparticles of BaTiO3(BT) with highest possible tetragonality via a solid state route, we tried to rationalize processes by using an organic additive, homogenizing the starting materials under mechanical stressing and using ultrafine starting materials. Main findings are (1) mechanically activated mixture with glycine starts formation of BT at significantly lower temperature; (2) higher reactivity simultaneously and inseparably induces faster growth of BT grains with lower crystallinity and (3) finer starting materials obtained under gentle mixing with higher homogeneity result in BT particles closest to meet our requirements for MLCCs.
