Advances in Solid Oxide Fuel Cells and Electronic Ceramics, Volume 36, Issue 3

Narottam P. Bansal, PhD, is Senior Research Scientist at the NASA Glenn Research Center, where he has conducted research on glasses, ceramics, and composites since 1985. In addition to publishing more than 230 papers, Dr. Bansal holds seven patents and is the author or editor of five books and 32 conference proceedings.

Preface ix Introduction xi

SOLID OXIDE FUEL CELLS

Effects of TiO2 Addition on Microstructure and Ionic Conductivity of Gadolinia-Doped Ceria Solid Electrolyte 3
M. C. F. Dias and E. N. S. Muccillo

Effect of Specific Surface Area and Particle Size Distribution on the Densification of Gadolinium Doped Ceria 13
K. Paciejewska, A. Weber, S. Kühn, and M. Kleber

Study on Sintering and Stability Issues of BaZr0.1Ce0.7Y0.1Yb0.1O3-Electrolyte for SOFCs 21
Armin Vahid Mohammadi and Zhe Cheng

Sintering, Mechanical, Electrical and Oxidation Properties of Ceramic Intermetallic TiC-Ti3Al Composites from Nano-TiC Particles 31
Zhezhen Fu, Kanchan Mondal, and Rasit Koc

Characteristics of Protective LSM Coatings on Cr-Contained Steels used as Metallic Interconnectors of Intermediated Temperature Solid Oxide Fuel Cells 45
Chun-Liang Chang, Chang-sing Hwang, Chun-Huang Tsai, Sheng-Fu Yang, Wei-Ja Shong, Zong-Yang Jhuang-Shie, and Te-Jung Daron Huang

Electrical and Microstructural Evolutions of La0.67Sr0.33MnO3 Coated Ferritic Stainless Steels after Long-Term Aging at 800°C 57
Chien-Kuo Liu, Peng Yang, Wei-Ja Shong, Ruey-Yi Lee, and Jin-Yu Wu

Structural and Electrochemical Performance Stability of Perovskite–Fluorite Composite for High Temperature Electrochemical Devices 67
Sapna Gupta and Prabhakar Singh

Durability of Lanthanum Strontium Cobalt Ferrite ((La0.60Sr0.40)0.95(Co0.20Fe0.80)O3-x) Cathodes in CO2 and H2O Containing Air 75
Boxun Hu, Manoj K. Mahapatra, Vinit Sharma, Rampi Ramprasad, Nguyen Minh, Scott Misture, and Prabhakar Singh

Fabrication of the Anode-Supported Solid Oxide Fuel Cell with Composite Cathodes and the Performance Evaluation upon Long-Term Operation 83
Tai-Nan Lin, Yang-Chuang Chang, Maw-Chwain Lee, and Ruey-yi Lee

Development of Microtubular Solid Oxide Fuel Cells using Hydrocarbon Fuels 93
Hirofumi Sumi, Hiroyuki Shimada, Toshiaki Yamaguchi, Koichi Hamamoto, Toshio Suzuki, and Yoshinobu Fujishiro

Highly Efficient Solid Oxide Electrolyzer and Sabatier System 105
Viswanathan Venkateswaran, Tim Curry, Christie Iacomini, and John Olenick

SINGLE CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS FOR ELECTRICAL AND OPTICAL APPLICATIONS

The Effects of Excess Silicon and Carbon in SiC Source Materials on SiC Single Crystal Growth in Physical Vapor Transport Method 117
Tatsuo Fujimoto, Masashi Nakabayashi, Hiroshi Tsuge, Masakazu Katsuno, Shinya Sato, Shoji Uhsio, Komomo Tani, Hirokastu Yashiro, Hosei Hirano, and Takayuki Yano

Recent Progress of GaN Substrates Manufactured by VAS Method 129
Takehiro Yoshida, Takayuki Suzuki, Toshio Kitamura, Yukio Abe, Hajime Fujikura, Masatomo Shibata, and Toshiya Saito

Coilable Single Crystal Fibers of Doped-YAG for High Power Applications 139
B. Ponting, E. Gebremichael, R. Magana, and G. Maxwell

Hydrothermal Crystal Growth and Applications 151
M. Prakasam, O. Viraphong, O. Cambon, and A. Largeteau

Reactive Atmospheres for Oxide Crystal Growth 157
Detlef Klimm, Steffen Ganschow, Zbigniew Galazka, Rainer Bertram, Detlev Schulz, and Reinhard Uecker

Discussion on Polycrystals over Single Crystals for Optical Devices 169
Mythili Prakasam and Alain Largeteau

Terahertz Time-Domain Spectroscopy Application to Non-Destructive Quality Evaluation of Industrial Crystalline Materials 177
S. Nishizawa, T. Nagashima, M. W. Takeda, and K. Shimamura

Author Index 187