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NUCLEAR INSTRUMENTS & METHODS IN PHYSICS RESEARCH SECTION B-BEAM INTERACTIONS WITH MATERIALS AND ATOMS
Volume 190, Issue -, Pages 732-735Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-583X(01)01268-X
Keywords
yttria stabilized zirconia; low-energy ion scattering; segregation; impurity; free energy; solid oxide fuel cell
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The outermost surface of the yttria stabilised zirconia (YSZ) electrolyte in the solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) plays a dominant role in the performance of the cell. Low energy ion scattering is the only technique, which is capable of studying exactly that surface. Instead of Y2O3, impurities segregated to the outermost surface until it was completely covered by them. This strong impurity segregation was proven characteristic for any YSZ sample. The performance of the SOFC will therefore be completely determined by these impurities. Y2O3 did segregate to the subsurface layer and a difference in interfacial free energies between Y2O3 and ZrO2 of 21 +/- 3 kJ/mol was determined. So what normally is explained Lis surface segregation is in fact subsurface segregation, which also explains the higher Y2O3, concentration measured in this study compared to literature. (C) 2002 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
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