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@ARTICLE{Mueller:878685,
author = {Mueller, Michael P. and Pingen, Katrin and Hardtdegen,
Alexander and Aussen, Stephan and Kindsmueller, Andreas and
Hoffmann-Eifert, Susanne and De Souza, Roger A.},
title = {{C}ation diffusion in polycrystalline thin films of
monoclinic {H}f{O} 2 deposited by atomic layer deposition},
journal = {APL materials},
volume = {8},
number = {8},
issn = {2166-532X},
address = {Melville, NY},
publisher = {AIP Publ.},
reportid = {FZJ-2020-03003},
pages = {081104 -},
year = {2020},
abstract = {Though present in small amounts and migrating at low rates,
intrinsic cation defects play a central role in governing
the operational lifetime of oxide-ion conducting materials
through slow degradation processes such as interdiffusion,
kinetic demixing, grain growth, and creep. In this study, a
new experimental approach to characterizing the behavior of
such slow-moving, minority defects is presented. Diffusion
is probed in samples with a constant cation-defect
concentration well above the equilibrium values. This
approach is applied to monoclinic hafnium dioxide, m-HfO2.
To this end, nanocrystalline thin films of m-HfO2 were
prepared by atomic layer deposition. Diffusion experiments
with ZrO2 as a diffusion source were performed in the
temperature range 1173 ≤ T/K ≤ 1323 in air. The Zr
diffusion profiles obtained subsequently by secondary ion
mass spectrometry exhibited the following two features: the
first feature was attributed to slow bulk diffusion and the
second was attributed to combined fast grain-boundary
diffusion and slow bulk diffusion. The activation enthalpy
of Zr diffusion in bulk HfO2 was found to be (2.1 ± 0.2)
eV. This result is consistent with the
density-functional-theory calculations of hafnium-vacancy
migration in m-HfO2, which yield values of ∼2 eV for a
specific path. The activation enthalpy of the grain-boundary
diffusion of (2.1 ± 0.3) eV is equal to that for bulk
diffusion. This behavior is interpreted in terms of enhanced
cation diffusion along space-charge layers},
cin = {PGI-7 / PGI-10 / JARA-FIT},
ddc = {600},
cid = {I:(DE-Juel1)PGI-7-20110106 / I:(DE-Juel1)PGI-10-20170113 /
$I:(DE-82)080009_20140620$},
pnm = {524 - Controlling Collective States (POF3-524)},
pid = {G:(DE-HGF)POF3-524},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)16},
UT = {WOS:000560032100002},
doi = {10.1063/5.0013965},
url = {https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/878685},
}