Novel Raman spec
tra were discovered in (Ba
1trong class="boldFont">−trong>xSm
x)(Ti
0.95trong class="boldFont">−trong>x/4Ce
0.05)O
3 (0.03≤
x≤0.10) ceramics and inves
tiga
ted in rela
tion
to
the fluorescen
t effec
t of Sm
3+ ions. Special in
teres
t was paid
to analyze
the dielec
tric response and defec
t chemis
try associa
ted wi
th
the s
truc
tural evolu
tion by X-ray diffrac
tion (XRD), scanning elec
tron microscopy (SEM), elec
tron paramagne
tic resonance (EPR), Raman spec
troscopy (RS), and dielec
tric measuremen
ts. Comple
te solid solu
tions, known as BS5TC5 and BS6TC5 for (Ba
1trong class="boldFont">−trong>xSm
x)(Ti
0.95trong class="boldFont">−trong>x/4Ce
0.05)O
3 ceramics were found
to form a
t x=0.05 and 0.06 (approxima
tely) and exhibi
t a cubic s
truc
ture and a non-uniform micros
truc
ture. BS6TC5 exhibi
ted a s
trong high-
k diffuse phase
transi
tion (DPT) behavior (
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TC=78 °C), a lower dielec
tric loss (
tan
δ&l
t;0.05), and a fea
ture of mi
xed valence a
t Ba si
tes (Sm
3+, Ce
3+) and Ti si
tes (Sm
3+, Ce
4+). The BSTC ceramics wi
th
x=0.09 me
t the Y5V specifica
tion. A weak
g=2.004 EPR signal associa
ted wi
th ionized Ti-vacancy defec
ts appeared in single-phase ceramics.