Patent ID: 7685687

Claim:
A method for making a capacitor having a metal/dielectric/metal structure, comprising: providing a fugitive substrate; forming a metal green tape on said fugitive substrate by casting and drying a metal slurry on said fugitive substrate, said metal slurry comprising a metal powder, an organic carrier, a binder resin and a solvent; and forming a dielectric layer over the metal green tape, said dielectric layer comprising barium titanate, an organic carrier, a binder, and glass; forming a top metal electrode over the dielectric layer; and removing the fugitive substrate and co-firing the metal green tape, the dielectric layer and the top metal electrode, resulting in the fired structure comprising a metal/dielectric/metal structure, wherein the dielectric comprises glass in an amount that is less than 20% by weight of the total inorganic composition of the dielectric and the dielectric achieves substantially complete densification and wherein the metal in the metal powder is selected from the group consisting of copper and nickel and their alloys.