TY - JOUR
T1 - Specific considerations for obtaining appropriate La1-xSrxGa1-yMgyO3-δ thin films using pulsed-laser deposition and its influence on the performance of solid-oxide fuel cells
AU - Hwang, Jaeyeon
AU - Lee, Heon
AU - Lee, Jong Ho
AU - Yoon, Kyung Joong
AU - Kim, Hyoungchul
AU - Hong, Jongsup
AU - Son, Ji Won
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors would like to thank Dr. Young-Wan Ju (Kyushu Univ., UNIST) for valuable discussions. This work was financially supported by the Young Fellow Program of KIST and the Global Frontier R&D Program on Center for Multiscale Energy Systems ( 2011-0031579 ) funded by the National Research Foundation under the Ministry of Science, ICT & Future Planning, Korea .
Publisher Copyright:
© 2014 Elsevier B.V.
PY - 2015/1/15
Y1 - 2015/1/15
N2 - To obtain La1-xSrxGa1-yMgyO3-δ (LSGM) thin films with the appropriate properties, pulsed-laser deposition (PLD) is employed, and specific considerations regarding control of the deposition parameters is investigated. It is demonstrated that with a target of stoichiometric composition, appropriate LSGM thin films cannot be produced because of the deviation of the composition from the target to the thin film. Only after adjusting the target composition an LSGM thin film with an appropriate composition and phase can be obtained. The optimized LSGM thin film possesses an electrical conductivity close to that of the bulk LSGM. In contrast, non-optimized thin films do not yield any measurable electrical conductivity. The impact of the optimization of the LSGM thin-film electrolyte on the cell performance is quite significant, in that a solid-oxide fuel cell (SOFC) with an optimized LSGM thin-film electrolyte produces a maximum power density of 1.1 W cm-2 at 600 °C, whereas an SOFC with a non-optimal LSGM thin-film electrolyte is not operable.
AB - To obtain La1-xSrxGa1-yMgyO3-δ (LSGM) thin films with the appropriate properties, pulsed-laser deposition (PLD) is employed, and specific considerations regarding control of the deposition parameters is investigated. It is demonstrated that with a target of stoichiometric composition, appropriate LSGM thin films cannot be produced because of the deviation of the composition from the target to the thin film. Only after adjusting the target composition an LSGM thin film with an appropriate composition and phase can be obtained. The optimized LSGM thin film possesses an electrical conductivity close to that of the bulk LSGM. In contrast, non-optimized thin films do not yield any measurable electrical conductivity. The impact of the optimization of the LSGM thin-film electrolyte on the cell performance is quite significant, in that a solid-oxide fuel cell (SOFC) with an optimized LSGM thin-film electrolyte produces a maximum power density of 1.1 W cm-2 at 600 °C, whereas an SOFC with a non-optimal LSGM thin-film electrolyte is not operable.
KW - Composition transfer
KW - Mg-doped LaGaO
KW - Pulsed-laser deposition
KW - Solid-oxide fuel cell
KW - Sr- and
KW - Thin-film electrolyte
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U2 - 10.1016/j.jpowsour.2014.10.023
DO - 10.1016/j.jpowsour.2014.10.023
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84908377803
VL - 274
SP - 41
EP - 47
JO - Journal of Power Sources
JF - Journal of Power Sources
SN - 0378-7753
ER -
