TY - JOUR AU - Guo, X. AU - Vasco, E. AU - Mi, S. AU - Szot, K. AU - Wachsman, E. AU - Waser, R. TI - Ionic conduction in zirconia films on nanometer thickness JO - Acta materialia VL - 53 SN - 1359-6454 CY - Amsterdam [u.a.] PB - Elsevier Science M1 - PreJuSER-49699 SP - 5161 PY - 2005 N1 - Record converted from VDB: 12.11.2012 AB - Polycrystalline 8 mol% Y2O3-stabilized ZrO2 films with thicknesses of 12 and 25 nm were deposited on (100) MgO substrates, their nanostructures were investigated by means of transmission electron microscopy (TEM), high-resolution TEM and atomic force microscopy, and the electrical properties of the nanostructured films were characterized in dry and humid O-2. Compared with microcrystalline bulk ceramics, the ionic conductivity of the nanostructured films is lower by about a factor of 4, which is mainly due to the lower bulk conductivity and the low grain-boundary conductivity. There is not remarkable proton conduction in the nanostructured films when annealed in water vapor, and the influence of the ZrO2/MgO interface on its ionic conduction is negligible. (c) 2005 Acta Materialia Inc. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. KW - J (WoSType) LB - PUB:(DE-HGF)16 UR - <Go to ISI:>//WOS:000232859000020 DO - DOI:10.1016/j.actamat.2005.07.033 UR - https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/49699 ER -