• Journal of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers
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• v.26 no.2
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• pp.98-103
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• 2013

The alumina substrates that Ni electrode was printed on and the multi-layered PTCR thermistors of which composition is $(Ba_{0.998}Ce_{0.002})TiO_3+0.001MnCO_3+0.05BN$ were fabricated by a thick film process, and the effect of re-oxidation temperature on their resistivities and resistance jumps were investigated, respectively. Ni electroded alumina substrate and the multi-layered PTC thermistor were sintered at $1150^{\circ}C$ for 2 h under $PO_2=10^{-6}$ Pa and then re-oxidized at $600{\sim}850^{\circ}C$ for 20 min. With increasing the re-oxidation temperature, the room temperature resistivity increased and the resistance jump ($LogR_{290}/R_{25}$) decreased, which seems to be related to the oxidation of Ni electrode. The small sized chip PTC thermistor such as 2012 and 3216 exhibits a nonlinear and rectifying behavior in I-V curve but the large sized chip PTC thermistor such as 4532 and 6532 shows a linear and ohmic behavior. Also, the small sized chip PTC thermistor such as 2012 and 3216 is more dependent on the re-oxidation temperature and easy to be oxidized in comparison with the large sized chip PTC thermistor such as 4532 and 6532. So, the re-oxidation conditions of chip PTC thermistor may be determined by considering the chip size.

• Fire Science and Engineering
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• v.21 no.4
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• pp.65-71
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• 2007

This paper is studied on a protective control system for electrical fire and electrical faults by using electrical and thermal characteristics of PTC thermistor. The PTC thermistor has characteristic or positive resistivity temperature coefficient according to the temperature variation, which is construction of a regular square and cube demarcation with $BaTiO_3$ Ceramics of positive temperature coefficient. Also PTC thermistor shows the phenomenon which is rapidly increased in the resistivity if the temperature is increased over Curie temperature point. This paper is proposed on a protective control system used PTC thermistor which is protected from electrical fire due to electric short circuit faults or overload faults. Some experimental results of the proposed electric safety control apparatus are confirmed to the validity of the analytical results.

• 전기의세계
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• v.31 no.6
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• pp.437-444
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• 1982

Although several kinds of conduction mechanism of PTC thermistor have been reported, there were few satisfying results. In this paper, the reported conduction mechanism theories were scrutinized and analyzed by using the experimental results. PTC thermistors for this study were manufactured by adding Sb$\_$2/O$\_$3/, AI$\_$2/O$\_$3/, TiO$\_$2/, and SiO$\_$2/ to BaTiO$\_$3/, and by sintering it at different temperatures. In order to analyze the conduction mechanism, R-T characteristics and its frequency dependence of specimens were measured. And also, the structures of specimens were studied. Especially this paper emphasized the explanation of the resistivity characteristics as the grain growth state of PTC thermistor specimens with respect to soaking temperature. According to the results, the resistivity of PTC thermistor whose grain was formed by semiconducting, was independent to the grain size at room temperature. For small and uniform grain size, the slope of the resistivity near the Curie temperature and the resistivity above the Curie temperature became greater and PTCR effect was improved.

• Journal of Sensor Science and Technology
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• v.3 no.3
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• pp.3-8
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• 1994

Flow sensor was fabricated with PTC thermistor usually operating as thermostats. The PTC thermistor was manufactured with $(Ba_{0.7}Sr_{0.3})TiO_{3}$ powder and its resistivity as a function of flow velocity was investigated. The resistivity changed from 4.45 $k{\Omega}{\cdot}cm$ to 3.95 $k{\Omega}{\cdot}cm$ as flow velocity varied 0 cm/s to 5 cm/s The sensitivities of the PTC thermistor were -204 (${\Omega}{\cdot}cm$)/(cm/s) and -24 (${\Omega}{\cdot}cm$)/(cm/s) at the flow velocity of 1 cm/s and 5 cm/s, respectively.

• Journal of the Microelectronics and Packaging Society
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• v.15 no.1
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• pp.51-58
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• 2008

This paper is studied on a prevention system for electrical fire and electrical faults by using electrical temperature characteristic of PTC thermistor. The PTC thermistor has characteristic of positive resistivity temperature coefficient according to the temperature variation, which is construction of a regular square and cube demarcation with $BaTiO_3$ ceramics of positive temperature coefficient. Also PTC shows the phenomenon which is rapidly increased in the resistivity if the temperature is increased over Curie temperature point. This paper is proposed on a protective control system used with temperature sensor of PTC thermistor. The proposed prevention system will prevent electrical fires due to electric short circuit faults or overload faults. And the prevention system will solve the problems that circuit breakers to be commonly used at existing are happened frequently electrical fires and electrical disasters due to incapable operation, weak reliability and low speed response. Some experimental results of the proposed apparatus are confirmed to the validity of the analytical results.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers Conference
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• 2003.05b
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• pp.66-70
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• 2003

This dissertation is about the development of $BaTiO_{3}$-type PTC(Positive Temperature Coefficient) thermistor by composition method. PTC samples were fabricated after setting the experimental composition equation as $(Ba_{0.95-x}Sr_{0.05}Ca_x)TiO_3\;-\;0.01TiO_2\;-\;0.01SiO_2\;-\;aMnCO_3\;-\;0.2Nb_{2}O_{5}$ and their testing results were analyzed. a PTC thermistor, having the characteristics of relatively low resistance at room temperature and c and a good temperature coefficient, has been developed.

• Journal of the Korean Ceramic Society
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• v.49 no.5
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• pp.432-437
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• 2012

Electrical properties of the laminated SMD-type PTC thermistor for microcircuit protection were investigated as a function of calcination and sintering temperature. $BaTiO_3$ with $Y_2O_3$ and $MnO_2$ were calcined at 1000 to $1150^{\circ}C$ for 2h and the laminated SMD-type PTC thermistor was sintered at 1350 to $1400^{\circ}C$ for 2h in a reduced atmosphere (1% $H_2/N_2$). Sintered density of the sample was dependent on the calcination and sintering temperature. Electrical properties of the sintered samples were strongly dependent on the densities of samples. For the samples with density below 4.6 g/$cm^3$, the insulator characteristics were observed, while PTC jump characteristics (R150/R30) were disappeared for the sample with density above 5.05 g/$m^3$. Optimal PTC characteristics were obtained for the sintered samples with density of 5.05 g/$m^3$. The laminated SMD-type PTC thermistor prepared by calcination at $1100^{\circ}C$ for 2h and sintering at $1270^{\circ}C$ for 2h showed the room temperature resistivity of $11{\Omega}{\cdot}cm$ and PTC jump characteristics of $10^2$ order.

• Journal of Sensor Science and Technology
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• v.9 no.1
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• pp.76-82
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• 2000

PTC thermistors with multilayer structure were fabricated by internal electrode bonding technique in order to realize low resistance. MLPTC (Multilayer Positive Temperature Coefficient) possess various features, such as small size, low resistivity and large current. We describe the effect of additives on the PTC characteristics, voltage - current characteristics, temperature dependence of resistance and complex impedance spectra as a function of frequency range 100 Hz to 13MHz to determine grain boundary resistance. It was found that MLPTC thermistor has both highly nonlinear effects of temperature dependent resistance and voltage dependent current behaviors, which act as passive element with self-repair mechanisms. Decrease of room temperature resistance with increasing the number of layers was demonstrated to be a grain boundary effect. Switching characteristics of current were caused by heat capacity of PTC thermistor with multilayer structure. Switching times are lengthened by increasing the number of layers.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers Conference
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• 2005.11a
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• pp.240-241
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• 2005

비 직선적 정(+) 저항온도계수 특성을 갖는 PTC thermistor는 전이온도(큐리점) 부근에서 온도변화에 대하여 극히 큰 저항 값의 변화를 나타내는 산화물계반도체 저항기(또는 발열체)로써, 일반적으로 반도체의 온도-저항 특성과 같이 상온영역에서 온도의 상승과 함께 부성저항 특성을 나타내다가 온도가 점점 증가하여 큐리점 부근에 도달하면 저항이 급격히 증가하는 독특한 특성을 갖는다. Perovskite 구조의 $BaTiO_3$를 주성분으로 미량의 Dopant를 첨가하여 도전성을 갖게 한 N형 반도체의 일종으로 저항-온도 특성 전류-전압 특성, 전류감쇄 특성 등을 이용하여 과전류 보호회로, 히터, TV 소자회로(degausser), 모터기동회로, 온도센서, 정온발열기기 등으로 널리 사용된다. 본 연구는 큐리점 부근의 급격한 저항변화 현상과 결정입계의 전위장벽 형성 및 그에 따른 정온발열 기능의 상관성으로부터 그 응용성을 조사하였다.

• Fire Science and Engineering
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• v.23 no.5
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• pp.196-205
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• 2009

Electric mosquito repellent mats can be ignited by damage of cables, partial disconnection, overload. tracking and so on. In this study, we examined the structure of mosquito repellent mat, positive temperature coefficient(PTC) thermistor, used for heating element and phenomenological characteristics of remains, obtained on the scene of fires. After reappearance ignition test of PTC thermistors, we did comparison analysis them. And we could confine that the feature of heating plate and the shape of bursting were same.