Journal
ACTA MATERIALIA
Volume 58, Issue 6, Pages 2197-2206Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.actamat.2009.12.005
Keywords
Segregation; Monte Carlo; Molecular dynamics; Yttria-stabilized zirconia; Gadolinia-doped ceria
Funding
- DOE/SciDAC Project on Quantum Simulation of Materials and Nanostructures
- NSF/CMMI Nano Bio Materials [CMS-0556032]
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We performed atomistic simulations of yttria-stabilized zirconia (YSZ) and gadolinia-doped ceria (GDC) to study the segregation of point defects near (100) surfaces. A hybrid Monte Carlo-molecular dynamics algorithm was developed to sample the equilibrium distributions of dopant cations and oxygen vacancies. The simulations predict an increase of dopant concentration near the surface, which is consistent with experimental observations. Oxygen vacancies are also found to segregate in the first anion layer beneath the surface and to be depleted in the subsequent anion layers. While the ionic size mismatch between dopant and host cations has been considered as a driving force for dopant segregation to the surface, our simulations show that the correlation between individual point defects plays a dominant role in determining their equilibrium distributions. This correlation effect leads to more pronounced dopant segregation in GDC than in YSZ, even though the size mismatch between dopant and host cations is much greater in YSZ than in GDC. (C) 2009 Acta Materialia Inc. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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