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Residual Stress and Buckling Patterns of Free-standing Yttria-stabilized-zirconia Membranes Fabricated by Pulsed Laser Deposition

The residual stress and buckling patterns of free‐standing 8 mol.% yttria‐stabilized‐zirconia (8YSZ) membranes prepared by pulsed laser deposition and microfabrication techniques on silicon substrates are investigated by wafer curvature, light microscopy, white light interferometry, and nanoindentat...

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Published in:Fuel cells (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany) Germany), 2012-08, Vol.12 (4), p.614-623
Main Authors: Evans, A., Prestat, M., Tölke, R., Schlupp, M. V. F., Gauckler, L. J., Safa, Y., Hocker, T., Courbat, J., Briand, D., de Rooij, N. F., Courty, D.
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Summary:The residual stress and buckling patterns of free‐standing 8 mol.% yttria‐stabilized‐zirconia (8YSZ) membranes prepared by pulsed laser deposition and microfabrication techniques on silicon substrates are investigated by wafer curvature, light microscopy, white light interferometry, and nanoindentation. The 300 nm thin 8YSZ membranes (390 μm × 390 μm) deposited at 25 °C are almost flat after free‐etching, whereas deposition at 700 °C yields strongly buckled membranes with a compressive stress of –1,100 ± 150 MPa and an out‐of‐plane‐displacement of 6.5 μm. These latter membranes are mechanically stable during thermal cycling up to 500 °C. Numerical simulations of the buckling shape using the Rayleigh–Ritz‐method and a Young's modulus of 200 GPa are in good agreement with the experimental data. The simulated buckling patterns are used to extract the local stress distribution within the free‐standing membrane which consists of tensile and compressive stress regions that are below the failure stresses. This is important regarding the application in, e.g., microsolid oxide fuel cell membranes which must be thermomechanically stable during microfabrication and device operation.
ISSN:1615-6846
1615-6854
DOI:10.1002/fuce.201200028