Multilayer ceramic capacitor

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10431385-B2
Application number	US-201715457337-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Mar 13, 2017
Priority date	Jun 20, 2016
Publication date	Oct 1, 2019
Grant date	Oct 1, 2019

Abstract

A multilayer ceramic capacitor includes: a pair of external electrodes; a first internal electrode containing a base metal and coupled to one of the external electrodes; a dielectric layer stacked on the first internal electrode and containing a ceramic material and the base metal; and a second internal electrode stacked on the dielectric layer, containing the base metal, and coupled to another one of the external electrodes, wherein a concentration of the base metal in each of five regions, which are equally divided regions of a region between locations 50 nm away from the first and second internal electrodes in a stacking direction between the first and second internal electrodes, is within ±20% of an average of the concentrations of the base metal in the five regions, and an average grain size in the dielectric layer is 200 nm or less.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A multilayer ceramic capacitor comprising:
a pair of external electrodes;
a first internal electrode that contains a base metal and is coupled to one of the pair of external electrodes;
a dielectric layer that is stacked on the first internal electrode and contains a ceramic material and the base metal, wherein a main component of the dielectric layer is the ceramic material; and
a second internal electrode that is stacked on the dielectric layer, contains the base metal, and is coupled to another one of the pair of external electrodes, wherein
a concentration of the base metal in each of five regions is within ±20% of an average of the concentrations of the base metal in the five regions, each of the five regions including the base metal, the five regions being obtained by dividing a region of the dielectric layer equally into five in a stacking direction, the region of the dielectric layer being located from a location 50 nm away from the first internal electrode to a location 50 nm away from the second internal electrode in the stacking direction between the first internal electrode and the second internal electrode, wherein abundance of Ba and Ti in each of the five regions is more than 90% as measured by measuring abundance of Ba atoms and Ti atoms by a transmission electron microscope,
an average grain size in the dielectric layer is 200 nm or less, and
the region located from the location 50 nm away from the first internal electrode to the location 50 nm away from the second internal electrode includes both a crystal grain of the ceramic material and a crystal grain boundary of the crystal grain.

2. The multilayer ceramic capacitor according to claim 1 , wherein
the concentration of the base metal in each of the five regions is within ±10% of the average of the concentrations of the base metal in the five regions.

3. The multilayer ceramic capacitor according to claim 1 , wherein
the concentration of the base metal in each of the five regions is within ±5% of the average of the concentrations of the base metal in the five regions.

4. The multilayer ceramic capacitor according to claim 1 , wherein
the ceramic material is BaTiO 3 , and
the base metal is Ni.

5. The multilayer ceramic capacitor according to claim 4 , wherein
the dielectric layer contains a phase composed of Ni—Mg—O.

6. The multilayer ceramic capacitor according to claim 4 , wherein
an atomic concentration ratio of (Mg+Mn+V) to Ti is 0.02 or less in the dielectric layer, and
the dielectric layer contains a phase composed of Ba—Ti—Si—O.

7. The multilayer ceramic capacitor according to claim 1 , wherein
a plurality of dielectric layers are stacked across an internal electrode, and
80% or more of the plurality of dielectric layers are the dielectric layer.

8. The multilayer ceramic capacitor according to claim 1 , wherein the concentration of the base metal is measured by TEM (Transmission Electron Microscope).

9. The multilayer ceramic capacitor according to claim 1 , wherein the concentration of the base metal in the crystal grain is within ±20 % of the concentration of the base metal in the crystal grain boundary.

Assignees

• Taiyo Yuden Kk

Inventors

• Taniguchi Katsuya
• Morita Koichiro
• Ryu Minoru
• Iwazaki Yoshiki

Classifications

• H01G4/012

  Form of non-self-supporting electrodes · CPC title

• H01G4/30 Primary

  Stacked capacitors (H01G4/33 takes precedence) · CPC title

• H01G4/248

  the terminals embracing or surrounding the capacitive element, e.g. caps (H01G4/252 takes precedence) · CPC title

• H01G4/0085

  Fried electrodes · CPC title

• H01G4/1218

  based on titanium oxides or titanates (H01G4/1245 takes precedence) · CPC title