Patent ID: 6947276

Claim:
A method of manufacturing a multilayer ceramic capacitor, comprising the steps of: (a) alternately layering internal electrodes and ceramic green sheets containing a ceramic material comprising barium titanate to form a laminated body; (b) sintering said laminated body to obtain a sintered body; and (c) forming an external electrode on end faces of said sintered body to obtain a multilayer ceramic capacitor, wherein said barium titanate has a diffraction line derived from (002) plane and a diffraction line derived from (200) plane in an X-ray diffraction chart, the ratio I (200) /I b of peak intensity I (200) at 2θ (200) to diffraction intensity I b at a midpoint angle between peak angle 2θ (002) of the diffraction line derived from the (002) plane and peak angle 2θ (200) of the diffraction line derived from the (200) plane is 2 to 10, and the product r·Sa of mean particle size r (μm) of said barium titanate and specific surface area Sa (m 2 /g) is 1 to 2.