Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
1500926 Scripta Materialia 2010 4 Pages PDF
Abstract

The grain boundary segregation and the concentration fluctuation of Gd in 25 at.% Gd-doped CeO2 (Gd0.25Ce0.75O1.875) have been directly characterized by a laser-assisted three-dimensional atom probe using an ultraviolent femtosecond pulse laser. Gd was found to be enriched not only at grain boundaries but also in nanosized domains within the grains. Both of these can explain the degradation of the ionic conductivity by the substitution of Gd for Ce in CeO2.

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