Grain boundary blocking of ionic conductivity in nanocrystalline yttria-doped ceria thin films
By Jihwan An and Jiwoong Bae and Soonwook Hong and Bongjun Koo and Young-Beom Kim and Turgut M. G
Published in Scripta Materialia
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2015
Abstract
Nanocrystalline \YDC\ thin films with grain-sizes ranging from 38 to 93-nm were prepared using pulsed laser deposition followed by thermal annealing. Ionic conductivity decreased up to four orders of magnitude as the grain size increased. Using energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy, we showed that the counter-intuitive reduction in conductivity with grain-size is likely due to dopant and impurity segregation near grain-boundaries. Spectroscopic evidence suggests that the blocking effect due to defect segregation is more dominant on ionic conductivity than the grain-sizes.
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