Highly a-axis-textured CrO2 films have been deposited on Al2O3 (0001) substrates by chemical vapor deposition. CrO2 has been found to have highly a-axis (010)-oriented columnar growth on a Cr2O3 (0001) initial layer. The sixfold surface symmetry of the Cr2O3 initial layer leads to three equivalent in-plane orientations of the a-axis-oriented CrO2 unit cell. We report Cr L2,3 X-ray magnetic circ...

Two-dimensional (2D) nanoscale oxides have attracted research interest owing to their electronic, magnetic optical and catalytic properties. If they could be manufactured on a large scale, 2D oxides would be attractive for applications ranging from electronics to energy conversion and storage. Herein, we report facile fabrication of oxide nanosheets by rapid thermal annealing of corresponding h...

Chromium oxide coatings are chemically inert, have high mechanical strength, hardness and good optical characteristics; therefore, they have been widely used in many applications including corrosion protection, wear resistance, electronics, and optics. Cr2O3 is well suited for wear resistance applications, as it is one of the hardest oxides with 29.5 GPa hardness. Several deposition techniques ...

Gadolinia-doped ceria (GDC) is widely used as an interlayer for preventing the formation of SrZrO3 between yttria-stabilized zirconia (YSZ) electrolyte and lanthanum strontium cobalt iron oxides (LSCF) cathode solid oxide fuel cells (SOFCs). However, diffusion Gd ions to YSZ results in decrease ionic conductivity due Gd2(Zr, Ce)2O7. In present work, we focus on lanthanum-doped (LDC) LSCF cathod...

Thin oxide films formed on commercial metal/porcelain Ni-Cr alloy containing Be, were studied by using the electron probe microanalyzer (EPMA) with the glass lining technique and by the X-ray diffraction method with the Debye-Scherrer camera. Oxidation was restricted to form thin oxide films as follows; at 700•Ž for 5 minutes in air, at 1,000•Ž for 2 minutes in air, and at 1,000•Ž for 40 minute...

The calculations performed in this study indicate that efficient deposition of tetragonal yttria-stabilized zirconia ~YSZ! by chemical vapor deposition ~CVD! is feasible using metal chloride precursors ~Zr-Y-C-O-H-Cl system!. As reported in the literature, this work demonstrates that high oxygen content is necessary to efficiently utilize metal chloride precursors for depositing tetragonal YSZ ...

Crystalline yttria-stabilized zirconia (YSZ) gate dielectrics have been successfully fabricated on silicon wafers. By carefully controlling the annealing condition, the crystalline YSZ gate dielectrics show promising performances following the rapid thermal annealing process. The equivalent electrical oxide thickness only increases about 2.0 Å after annealing in O2 gas, while the leakage curren...

The paper discusses optimising work on a method of processing ceramic / metal composite coatings for various applications and is based on preliminary work on processing anodes for solid oxide fuel cells (SOFCs). The composite coating is manufactured by the electroless co-deposition of nickel and yttria stabilised zirconia (YSZ) simultaneously on to a ceramic substrate. The effect on coating cha...

In this study, thermal barrier coatings (TBC) consisting of 3.5 mol% Yb2O3-stabilized ZrO2 co-doped with 1 Gd2O3 and Yb2O3 (referred to as GdYb-YSZ) were fabricated by means air plasma spraying. The as-fabricated exhibited a metastable tetragonal (t′) structure. hot-corrosion behavior the GdYb–YSZ TBCs was investigated at 700, 800, 900, 1000 °C for 10 h in presence V2O5 molten salt. During corr...