Oxygen diffusion in SrCe0.95Yb0.05O3??

Abstract

18O/16O isotope exchange depth profiling (IEDP) combined with secondary ion mass spectrometry (SIMS) has been used to measure the oxygen tracer diffusivity of SrCe0.95Yb0.05O3−δ between 800 °C and 500 °C at a nominal pressure of 200 mbar. The values of D* (oxygen tracer diffusion coefficient) and k (surface exchange coefficient) increase steadily with increasing temperature, and the activation energies are 1.13 eV and 0.96 eV, respectively. Oxygen ion conductivities have been calculated using the Nernst–Einstein equation. The transport number for oxide ions at 769 °C, the highest temperature studied, is only ~0.05. Moreover, SrCe0.95Yb0.05O3−δ has been studied using impedance spectroscopy under dry O2, wet O2 and wet H2 (N2/10% H2) atmospheres, over the range 850–300 °C. Above ~550 °C, SrCe0.95Yb0.05O3−δ shows higher conductivity in dry O2 than in wet O2 or wet H2; below that temperature the results obtained for the three atmospheres are comparable. Dry O2 shows the highest activation energy (0.77 eV); the activation energies for wet O2 and wet H2 are identical (0.62 eV).