Strange characteristic curve for PTC (thermistor)?

Could someone explain to me why the characteristic curve of the PTC looks so strange?

From 100°C it makes sense, depending on the temperature R gets bigger, but why does the resistance get smaller up to 100°C?

Thanks in advance for the explanation!

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Doktorelektrik
1 year ago

Taj, then give the material analysis and construction of your PTC here so that you can check and justify it as a physicist.

Note: there is not DEN a PTC.

The data sheet serves to use this component in such a way that it can offer the desired behavior. This component is more designed as overheating protection or overload protection than for temperature measurement, quasi as thermal protection.

Lutz28213
1 year ago

An exact explanation cannot be given here shortly.

Material: Barium titanate crystals with doping of caffeine of higher value. As a result, free electrons are removed which enable a current flow. However, the conductivity at the crystal lattice boundaries is limited by potential thresholds, which are almost “impactly” degraded when a certain temperature falls below (cure temperature) and thus permit a greater current flow because the total resistance becomes smaller.

ichmagmemes
1 year ago

because such temperature resistances are usually “fixed” to a temperature. for example at 0 degrees the ding has 100 ohms

AMG38
1 year ago

Depends on the material used and on the basic construction of a PTC. These are also produced with semiconducting materials and thus form barrier layers/depletion zones which are compensated with increasing temperature. This region of the characteristic curve then has a hot conductor behavior.

Spikeman197
1 year ago

Not my special area!

If a normal behavior of technical components appears to be, it is therefore necessary to explain construction-related and not exactly with the basic models.

https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaltleiter#Bariumtitanat