Properties and Performance of Electrolyte Supported SOFCs with EB-PVD Gd-Doped Ceria Thin-Films

Autor: Han, Feng, Riegraf, Matthias, Sata, Noriko, Bombarda, Ilaria, Liensdorf, Tom, Sitzmann, Carolin, Langhof, Nico, Schafföner, Stefan, Walter, Christian, Geipel, Christian, Costa, Rémi
Zdroj: ECS Transactions; July 2021, Vol. 103 Issue: 1 p139-147, 9p
Abstrakt: In this work, dense gadolinium-doped ceria (GDC) thin-films with thickness of 0.15 and 0.5 µm were fabricated on 90 µm thick 3YSZ electrolytes by electron beam physical vapor deposition (EB-PVD), and integrated into electrolyte supported solid oxide cells (ESC) as Sr-barrier layer. Operated at 860°C, the ESC with 0.5 µm GDC thin-film outperformed the cells with 0.15 µm GDC layers and delivered a power density of 0.54 W.cm-2at a cell voltage of 0.7 V. Post mortem investigations by scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDX) confirmed that 0.5 µm thick GDC thin-films were effective to suppress the formation of the strontium zirconate phase at the YSZ/GDC interface.
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