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Defects and Ion Transport Properties of Yttrium Doped Zirconia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 February 2011

P. J. Chaba
Affiliation:
Department of Physics, University of the North, Sovenga 0727, South Africa.
P. E. Ngoepe
Affiliation:
Department of Physics, University of the North, Sovenga 0727, South Africa.
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Abstract

A comparison of calculated and experimental temperature variation of elastic constants were used to predict types of oxygen—vacancy dopant clusters in yttria stabilised cubic zirconia, which serves as an electrolyte in solid oxide fuelcells. Such clusters were incorporated in supercells set up for molecular dynamics studies, where oxygen transport properties were investigated at concentrations of 9.4 and 24 mol % of yttrium oxide and up to 1600K.

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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1997

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