Analyzing the grain‐boundary resistance of oxide‐ion conducting electrolytes: Poisson‐Cahn vs Poisson‐Boltzmann theories
Analyzing the grain‐boundary resistance of oxide‐ion conducting electrolytes: Poisson‐Cahn vs Poisson‐Boltzmann theories
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10.1111/jace.16716
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2019-09
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3.9
通讯作者:
X. Tong;D. Mebane;R. D. De Souza
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作者:
X. Tong;D. Mebane;R. D. De Souza
The electrical response of a crystalline oxide is often governed by interactions between the system's point defects and its interfaces. The segregation of charged point‐defects to a grain boundary, for instance, results in the grain boundary becoming electrostatically charged and space‐charge zones forming in the adjacent bulk phase to preserve global electroneutrality. This re‐distribution of charged point‐defects may alter local point‐defect concentrations in the vicinity of a boundary by many orders of magnitude, and thus, it may give rise to grain boundaries that are, relative to the bulk phase, highly conductive or highly resistive. The abrupt core|space‐charge model1‒8 currently represents the standard treatment of space‐charge layers at grain boundaries in complex oxides. It is essentially a two‐phase model, in which a grain‐boundary core phase is sandwiched between two slabs of bulk material, the grain‐boundary core being the structurally perturbed region between the two grains. (Since the grain‐boundary core is characterized by a finite width and by a distinct set of thermodynamic quantities, and since it is in (partial) Received: 8 March 2019 | Revised: 22 July 2019 | Accepted: 22 July 2019 DOI: 10.1111/jace.16716