“…In recent years, among various dielectric materials, barium strontium titanate Ba x Sr 1Àx TiO 3 -based ceramics, as a good kind of pulse capacitor, have been widely investigated [6,7]. These materials play a critical role in energy storage capacitors because of their extremely high dielectric constant permittivity (corresponding to a high capacitance value) as well as relatively low dielectric loss [8,9]. However, undoped Ba x Sr 1Àx TiO 3 ceramics cannot be applied to energy storage application directly due to their low breakdown strength (BDS), which is, in principle, ascribed to the existence of unavoidable chemical defects yielded during the preparation process.…”