Impact of microstructure and crystallinity on surface exchange kinetics of strontium titanium iron oxide perovskite by: In situ optical transmission relaxation approach

Ting Chen; George F. Harrington; Kazunari Sasaki; Nicola H. Perry

doi:10.1039/c7ta04940d

Impact of microstructure and crystallinity on surface exchange kinetics of strontium titanium iron oxide perovskite by: In situ optical transmission relaxation approach

Ting Chen, George F. Harrington, Kazunari Sasaki, Nicola H. Perry

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The rate of oxygen exchange at the surface of mixed conductors is a critical property impacting the performance of elevated temperature energy conversion/storage devices. Microstructural features, such as grain boundary density and crystalline quality, are expected to impact the surface exchange kinetics, but their effect has not yet been widely studied. In this work, mixed conducting perovskite SrTi_0.65Fe_0.35O_3-δ (STF35) thin films grown by pulsed laser deposition were applied as a model system to systematically study the effect of microstructure on oxygen surface exchange kinetics. The impact of growth temperature on crystalline quality, orientation, grain size, surface roughness, and surface chemistry was evaluated by X-ray diffraction, scanning probe microscopy, transmission electron microscopy, and angle-resolved X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (AR-XPS). A contact-free, continuous, in situ optical transmission relaxation approach was then applied to quantify the films' native surface oxygen exchange coefficients (k_chem). Amorphous films, grown at low temperatures (25 °C), did not exhibit measurable oxygen exchange ability. Highly crystalline films, grown at high temperatures (800 °C), exhibited reasonable, but not optimal k_chem. The most rapid k_chem was found for intermediate growth conditions, i.e., for amorphous-grown thin films just after crystallization at higher temperatures (550 °C) or for films grown near (580 °C) the crystallization temperature. Combined with the AR-XPS results showing greater surface Sr concentrations in films grown at higher temperatures, results suggest rapid k_chem is obtained as a trade-off between good crystalline quality and low Sr surface concentration. Degradation of k_chem over time was correlated to increased Sr surface concentration. Additionally, (100)-oriented epitaxial vs. nano-columnar grained (110)-oriented thin films with excellent crystalline quality exhibited very similar k_chem and aging behavior, suggesting that neither grain boundaries nor film orientation cause observable changes in surface exchange kinetics in this composition.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	23006-23019
Number of pages	14
Journal	Journal of Materials Chemistry A
Volume	5
Issue number	44
Early online date	2 Oct 2017
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1039/c7ta04940d
Publication status	Published - 28 Nov 2017

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This research was primarily funded by JSPS Kakenhi Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B) project number JP15K18213 (to N. H. Perry) and by the International Institute for Carbon-Neutral Energy Research (WPI-I2CNER, MEXT) at Kyushu University, Japan. G. F. Harrington and K. Sasaki acknowledge Progress-100 funding for Kyushu University – MIT collaboration. GFH also gratefully acknowledges nancial support from a Kakenhi Grant-in-Aid for Encouragement of Young Scientists (B) Award (No. JP16K18235).

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Impact of microstructure and crystallinity on surface exchange kinetics of strontium titanium iron oxide perovskite by: In situ optical transmission relaxation approach. / Chen, Ting; Harrington, George F.; Sasaki, Kazunari et al.
In: Journal of Materials Chemistry A, Vol. 5, No. 44, 28.11.2017, p. 23006-23019.

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