Chemical expansion of praseodymium-cerium mixed oxide films at high temperatures

镨-铈混合氧化物薄膜的高温化学膨胀

• 批准号: 404875250
• 负责人: Professor Dr.-Ing. Holger Fritze
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Institut für Elektrische Informationstechnik
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research Grants
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 德国
• 起止时间: 2017-12-31 至 2022-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/404875250?language=en
• 关键词: Chemical; expansion; praseodymium; cerium; mixed

The primary objective of the research project is to investigate the chemical expansion of thin films at high temperatures. The material to be studied is praseodymium-cerium mixed oxide (PCO) in the temperature range from 400 °C to 700 °C. The choice is motivated by considerably higher mechanical expansion upon insertion or removal of oxygen in comparison to e.g. high-temperature piezoelectric crystals. Compared to bulk material, PCO films offer the advantage of low time constants as short transport distances for oxygen occur. In addition to the chemical expansion, the defect structure in the layers and the time-determining atomic transport mechanisms have to be determined. The development, realization and test of a special interferometer or more precisely vibrometer, which is able to measure changes of the layer thickness in the sub-nanometer range even at frequencies of a few millihertz, represents an essential technical task. Through the development of a differential vibrometer and the use of signal diversity, the noise of the signal should be drastically reduced. The results and the new measuring method can be applied to other materials than the PCO model system, so that further insights into chemical expansion and small displacements in other mechanical systems can be obtained.The topic is highly relevant. However, hardly any data on the chemical expansion of thin films is available. They have been determined largely indirectly and show some contradictions. In contrast to structural materials and electronic functional materials, high-temperature actuator materials require extensive research. Such high temperature "artificial muscles" are e.g. demanded for energy conversion and space exploration.The applicants have complementary competences in the field of high-temperature materials and the development of vibrometers, which are well suited for solving the scientific challenge and which are unique in this combination. Furthermore, the work will be carried out in close cooperation with an author of the apparently only available publication on mechanical determination of PCO film expansion, so that the planned sample exchange provides comparable results.The preliminary work has shown that vibrometers are generally able to detect changes in the thickness of PCO films which are caused by electrochemical pumping of oxygen. A significant restriction, however, is the signal noise of standard vibrometers at low frequencies. Oxygen-equilibrium in the PCO films requires excitation frequencies of a few millihertz, where no meaningful measurements are possible so far. On the instrumentation side, for example, it has been shown that signal diversity significantly reduces noise.

该研究项目的主要目的是研究薄膜在高温下的化学膨胀。所研究的材料为镨铈混合氧化物（PCO），温度范围为400℃~ 700℃。与高温压电晶体相比，这种选择的动机是在插入或去除氧气时具有相当高的机械膨胀。与块状材料相比，PCO薄膜具有低时间常数的优点，因为氧的传输距离短。除了化学膨胀外，还必须确定层中的缺陷结构和决定时间的原子输运机制。开发、实现和测试一种特殊的干涉仪或更精确的测振仪，能够测量亚纳米范围内甚至几毫赫频率下的层厚变化，是一项重要的技术任务。通过研制差动测振仪和使用信号分集，可以大幅度降低信号的噪声。结果和新的测量方法可以应用于PCO模型系统以外的其他材料，从而进一步了解其他机械系统中的化学膨胀和小位移。这个话题非常相关。然而，几乎没有任何关于薄膜化学膨胀的数据。它们主要是间接确定的，并显示出一些矛盾。与结构材料和电子功能材料相比，高温致动器材料需要广泛的研究。例如，这种高温“人造肌肉”被用于能量转换和太空探索。申请人在高温材料和测振仪开发领域具有互补的能力，非常适合解决科学挑战，并且在这一组合中是独一无二的。此外，这项工作将与显然唯一可用的关于PCO薄膜膨胀的机械测定的出版物的一位作者密切合作进行，以便计划的样品交换提供可比较的结果。初步工作表明，测振仪一般能够检测到电化学泵送氧引起的PCO膜厚度变化。然而，一个重要的限制是标准测振仪在低频时的信号噪声。PCO薄膜中的氧平衡要求激发频率为几毫赫兹，而到目前为止还没有有意义的测量。例如，在仪器仪表方面，已经证明信号分集可以显著降低噪声。