Elastic moduli of pure and gadolinium doped ceria revisited: Sound velocity measurements

Nimrod Yavo, David Noiman, Ellen Wachtel, Sangtae Kim, Yishai Feldman, Igor Lubomirsky, Ori Yeheskel

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Abstract

The Young's, shear and bulk moduli of dense (> 95%) Gd-doped ceria (Ce1-xGdxO2-x/2) ceramics were determined as a function of Gd content using the ultrasonic pulse-echo method and corrected for porosity according to both static and dynamic models. With increasing defect concentration (0-20 mol% Gd), the Young's and shear moduli decrease linearly by 10% while for 29 mol%, the values lie above the linear fit; the bulk modulus decreases linearly within the complete range. We conclude that structural changes, induced by oxygen vacancy ordering for x > 0.2, may influence the uniaxial and shear moduli, leaving the bulk modulus unaffected.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)86-89
Number of pages4
JournalScripta Materialia
Volume123
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Oct 2016
Externally publishedYes

Bibliographical note

Publisher Copyright:
© 2016 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

Funding

The authors thank the US–Israel Binational Science Foundation ( 2012237 ) for funding this research. I.L. wishes to acknowledge the assistance of the Nancy and Stephen Grand Research Center for Sensors and Security. The research is also made possible in part by the generosity of the Harold Perlman Family.

FundersFunder number
US-Israel Binational Science Foundation2012237

    Keywords

    • Elastic properties
    • Gd-doped ceria
    • Porosity
    • Sound velocity

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