Effect of water adsorption on conductivity in epitaxial Sm0.1Ce0.9O2-? thin film for micro solid oxide fuel cells applications

The growing demand for miniaturized systems for energy conversion and storage has prompted extensive research aimed at fabricating electrochemical devices, such as solid oxide fuel cells for portable applications (?-SOFCs). This goal requires reducing the operating temperature by producing components as thin films. Nowadays, there is a huge gap between macroscopic device-level electrochemical techniques and microscopic electrochemical techniques to study atomic-level diffusion and transport process