Fig. 4 exhibits the shrinkage curves of BaTiO3 as a function of temperature for various silica contents. The onset temperature of shrinkage curves is dependent on silica contents and shifts to higher temperatures with increasing SiO2. Silica coating layer could retard densification at the initial stage of sintering. The specimen with 5.0 wt.% SiO2 showed the maximum shrinkage 25.5%, whereas the shrinkage of the uncoated BaTiO3 was 20.4%. The temperatures at which the maximum shrinkage occurred were 1265 and 1300 °C for 5.0 wt.% SiO2-coated and the uncoated BaTiO3, respectively. It should be noted that there is a slight shrinkage with 5.0 wt.% SiO2 coating around 800 °C. The minor shrinkage at ∼800 °C might be due to the reaction between SiO2 and BaTiO3 matrix, which is in accord with the previous study [15]. It was also reported that the secondary phase, fresnoite (Ba2TiSi2O8) emerges in the SiO2 containing BaTiO3 powder mixture at temperature above 800 °C [22]. X-ray diffractograms for the silica-coated BaTiO3 samples for various heating temperatures and silica contents are shown in Fig. 5. Below 700 °C, any second phase was not observed even with 5.0 wt.% SiO2-coated BaTiO3. However, fresnoite phase was detected at the temperature higher than 900 °C. This is in good agreement with the previous report that fresnoite phase is fully developed around 800 °C [22]. The sample sintered at 1300 °C with 1.0 wt.% SiO2 shows the weak characteristic X-ray diffraction peaks of fresnoite phase, whereas there was no such peak observed on the specimen with less than 0.5 wt.% SiO2. The minor shrinkage of the specimen with 5.0 wt.% SiO2 at 800 °C implies the formation of the fresnoite second phase as shown in Fig. 4.