“…Commercial systems, e.g., ZnO-Bi 2 O 3 and ZnO-Pr 6 O 11 cannot be co-fired with a Ag inner-electrode (m.p. 961 • C) in multilayered chip components because of their relatively high sintering temperature above 1000 • C. [4][5][6][7][8] Recent studies have shown that V 2 O 5 , the light-metal oxide, is a promising varistor former, which encouraged many research works, [9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18] where different ceramic binary systems, ZnO-V 2 O 5 ,w e r e investigated. [9][10][11][12][13][14][16][17][18] Also, effects of adding some different metal oxides and rare earths into the above binary system, on the electrical, dielectric and optical properties have been investigated by several authors, e.g., MnO 2 and Mn 3 O 4 , 19 Mn 3 O 4 and Nb 2 O 5 , 20 24 MnO 2 .…”