Abstract: A ceramic electronic device including a dielectric layer, wherein the dielectric layer includes a main component expressed by a composition formula of Bam TiO2+m, wherein “m” satisfies 0.995?m?1.010 and a ratio of Ba and Ti satisfies 0.995?Ba/Ti?1.010, and a subcomponent (a sixth subcomponent) including an oxide of Al; and a content of the Al compound is 0 to 4.0 moles (note that 0 is not included) in terms of Al2O3 with respect to 100 moles of the main component; and preferably, the dielectric layer includes a segregation phase, and the segregation phase includes an oxide of Al.

Abstract: A dielectric ceramic composition comprising a main component including Ba, Ca and Ti and having a perovskite crystal structure expressed by a general formula ABO3 and a fourth subcomponent including a compound of Zr; wherein a content of the fourth subcomponent with respect to 100 moles of the main component is larger than 0 mole and smaller than 5 moles in terms of Zr and, preferably, a segregation phase including the compound of Zr is provided.

Abstract: An object of the invention is to provide a multilayer ceramic capacitor having high dielectric constant, good temperature characteristic, and an improved IR temperature dependency. According to the present invention, a capacitor device body 10, wherein dielectric layers 2 comprising dielectric ceramic composition and internal electrode layers 3 are alternately laminated, characterized in that said dielectric ceramic composition comprises a plural number of crystal particles 2a wherein said crystal particles 2a form Ca dispersing area 25a wherein at least said Ca is dispersed from the surface to inside of crystal particles, and when considering crystal particles 2a having an average particle diameter of D50, an average depth T of said Ca dispersing area is controlled within a range of 10 to 30% with respect to the average particle diameter of D50, is provided.

Abstract: An electronic device having an element body, wherein dielectric layers and internal electrode layers are alternately stacked, wherein a hetero phase is formed in the dielectric layers and/or the internal electrode layers; and the hetero phase includes a Mg element and a Mn element. Preferably, the hetero phase is formed at least at a part near boundaries of the dielectric layers and the internal electrode layers.

Abstract: A dielectric ceramic composition comprising a predetermined main component and a fifth subcomponent including an oxide of A (note that A is at least one king selected from a cation element group having an effective ionic radius of 0.065 nm to 0.085 nm at the time of 6 coordination); and the dielectric ceramic composition comprises a plurality of crystal grains including Ca elements and, when assuming that an average value of a concentration of entire Ca exiting in said respective crystal grains is grain Ca concentration, at least unevenness exists in said grain Ca concentration between said crystal grains and it is 5% or higher in a CV value.

Abstract: A highly reliable ceramic electronic device having an excellent temperature characteristic of a capacitance and a low IR temperature dependency, comprising a dielectric layer: wherein the dielectric layer includes a main component expressed by a composition formula of BamTiO2+m, wherein “m” satisfies 0.995?m?1.010 and a ratio of Ba and Ti satisfies 0.995?Ba/Ti?1.010, and, as subcomponents, an oxide of Al and an oxide of Si or an oxide of R (note that R is at least one kind selected from Sc, Y, La, Ce, Pr, Nd, Pm, Sm, Eu, Gd, Tb, Dy, Ho, Er, Tm, Yb and Lu); and includes a secondary phase composed of at least a part of the oxide of Al and at least a part of the oxide of Si or the oxide of R and being different from a main phase mainly composed of the main component; and the production method are provided.

Abstract: A dielectric ceramic position having at least a main component including barium titanate, a first subcomponent including at least one type of compound selected from MgO, CaO, BaO, a SrO, a second subcomponent including at least one type of compound selected from Al2O3, Li2O, and B2O3, a third subcomponent including at least one type of compound selected from V2O5, MoO3, and WO3, a fourth subcomponent including an oxide of R1 (where R1 is at least one type of element selected from Sc, Er, Tm, Yb, and Lu), and a fifth subcomponent including CaZrO3 or CaO+ZrO2.

Abstract: A multilayer ceramic capacitor comprising a capacitor element body: wherein dielectric layers composed of a dielectric ceramic composition and internal electrode layers are alternately stacked; the dielectric ceramic composition comprises a plurality of dielectric particles each having a shell, wherein subcomponents are dispersed in a main component, formed around a core substantially composed of the main component; and a difference of the maximum thickness and the minimum thickness of the shell in the dielectric particles having an average particle diameter is controlled to be 6 to 60% of a radius of the dielectric particles; wherein a high permittivity and preferable temperature characteristic are obtained and TC bias characteristics are improved, is provided.

Abstract: An electronic device having an element body, wherein dielectric layers and internal electrode layers are alternately stacked, wherein a hetero phase is formed in the dielectric layers and/or the internal electrode layers; and the hetero phase includes a Mg element and a Mn element. Preferably, the hetero phase is formed at least at a part near boundaries of the dielectric layers and the internal electrode layers.

Abstract: A production method of a multilayer electronic device having an element body configured by alternately stacked dielectric layers formed by using dielectric paste and internal electrode layers formed by using conductive paste: wherein an adding quantity of a co-material included in conductive paste for forming internal electrode layers at the outermost positions in the stacking direction is larger than an adding quantity of a co-material included in conductive paste for forming internal electrode layers at the center position in the stacking direction when adding conductive particles and co-material particles to the conductive paste.

Abstract: A production method of a multilayer electronic device having an element body configured by alternately stacked dielectric layers and internal electrode layers: wherein a particle diameter ? of conductive particles and a particle diameter ? of co-material particles satisfies a relationship of ?/?=0.8 to 8.0, and an adding quantity of the co-material particles to the conductive paste is larger than 30 wt % and smaller than 65 wt %.

Abstract: A dielectric ceramic composition, comprising a main component including barium titanate; a first subcomponent including at least one kind selected from MgO, CaO, BaO and SrO; a second subcomponent functioning as a sintering auxiliary agent; a third subcomponent including at least one kind selected from V2O5, MoO3 and WO3; a fourth subcomponent including an oxide of R1 (note that R1 is at least one kind selected from Sc, Er, Tm Yb and Lu); a fifth subcomponent including CaZrO3 or CaO+ZrO2; and an eighth subcomponent including an oxide of A (note that A is at least one kind selected from a cation element group having an effective ionic radius at the time of 6 coordination of 0.065 nm to 0.085 nm); wherein a ratio of the eighth subcomponent with respect to 100 moles of the main component is 0 to 4 moles (note that 0 mole and 4 moles are excluded, and the value is in terms of an A oxide).

Abstract: A dielectric ceramic composition comprised of at least dielectric particles having barium titanate as its main ingredient, wherein the ratio of dielectric particles having a surface diffusion structure comprised of a main ingredient phase comprised of the main ingredient and a diffusion phase present around the ingredient phase with respect to said dielectric particles is 60% or more the ratio of dielectric particles having a domain in the main ingredient phase with respect to the dielectric particles having the surface diffusion structure is 20% or less. According to the present invention, a dielectric ceramic composition and electric device realizing good high temperature accelerated life can be provided.

Abstract: A dielectric ceramic composition including dielectric particles comprising a main ingredient phase having barium titanate as its main ingredient and a diffusion phase present at the periphery of said main ingredient phase, wherein when an average value of the depth where sub ingredient elements present at said diffusion phase diffuses from a surface of said diffusion phase toward a center of said dielectric particle is designated as an average diffusion depth, a dispersion of the average diffusion depth among the dielectric particles is, in terms of CV value, 5 to 30%. According to the present invention, an electronic device excellent in all of the dielectric constant, high temperature accelerated life, TC bias, and IR temperature dependency can be provided.

Abstract: A dielectric ceramic composition including dielectric particles and grain boundary phases present among these dielectric particles, wherein when measuring a concentration of Si and/or element “A” contained in the grain boundary phases (where, “A” is at least one element selected from cationic elements with an effective ion radius in sixfold coordination of 0.065 nm to 0.085 nm), the concentration of the Si and/or element “A” disperses depending on the position in the grain boundary phases, and the dispersion of the concentration of Si and/or elmemt “A” in the grain boundary phases is, in terms of CV value, larger than 10% and less than 58%. According to the present invention, a dielectric ceramic composition and an electronic device excellent in capacity-temperature characteristic while realizing a good high temperature accelerated life can be realized.

Abstract: A dielectric ceramic position having at least a main component including barium titanate, a first subcomponent including at least one type of compound selected from MgO, CaO, BaO, a SrO, a second subcomponent including at least one type of compound selected from Al2O3, Li2O, and B2O3, a third subcomponent including at least one type of compound selected from V2O5, MoO3, and WO3, a fourth subcomponent including an oxide of R1 (where R1 is at least one type of element selected from Sc, Er, Tm, Yb, and Lu), and a fifth subcomponent including CaZrO3 or CaO+ZrO2.

Abstract: A dielectric ceramic composition comprising a main component including barium titanate and an oxide of Al, wherein the dielectric ceramic composition includes a plurality of dielectric particles, concentration of Al in each of the dielectric particles becomes lower from a particle surface to inside thereof, and each of the dielectric particles has an Al non-dispersed region substantially not including Al at least at a center portion of the particle.

Abstract: A dielectric ceramic composition comprising a main component including Ba, Ca and Ti and having a perovskite crystal structure expressed by a general formula ABO3 and a fourth subcomponent including a compound of Zr; wherein a content of the fourth subcomponent with respect to 100 moles of the main component is larger than 0 mole and smaller than 5 moles in terms of Zr and, preferably, a segregation phase including the compound of Zr is provided.

Abstract: A dielectric ceramic composition comprising a predetermined main component and a fifth subcomponent including an oxide of A (note that A is at least one king selected from a cation element group having an effective ionic radius of 0.065 nm to 0.085 nm at the time of 6 coordination); and the dielectric ceramic composition comprises a plurality of crystal grains including Ca elements and, when assuming that an average value of a concentration of entire Ca exiting in said respective crystal grains is grain Ca concentration, at least unevenness exists in said grain Ca concentration between said crystal grains and it is 5% or higher in a CV value.

Abstract: A multilayer ceramic capacitor containing dielectric layers, in which each of the dielectric layers has a main component containing barium titanate, a first auxiliary component containing at least one kind selected from MgO, CaG, BaO, and SrO, a second auxiliary component containing a silicon oxide as a main component, a third auxiliary component containing at least one kind selected from the group consisting of V2O5, MoO3, and WO3, a fourth auxiliary component containing an oxide of at least one kind of first rare-earth element (R1) selected from Sc, Er, Tm, Yb, and Lu, a fifth auxiliary component containing CaZrO3 or a mixture (CaO+ZrO2) of CaO and ZrO2, and a liquid phase addition of organic metal salts of Zr and Ca.