Capacitance-vs-voltage characteristics of ZnO varistors

Abstract
Studies were made on the capacitance‐vs‐voltage characteristics of ZnO varistors which contain rare‐earth metal oxides and cobalt oxide. On the basis of the symmetrical Schottky‐barrier model of the grain‐boundary region, the barrier height φ and donor concentration Nd of ZnO grains were obtained by the modified 1/C2V plot reduced from observed CV relations. φ and Nd were obtained as 0.72 V and 1.6×1018 cm−3, respectively, for a ZnO‐Pr6O11‐Co3O4 system and 1.00 V and 0.76×1018 cm−3, respectively, for a ZnO‐Pr6O11‐La2O3‐Co3O4 system. These results support the validity of this model and the treatment.

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