Advances in solid oxide fuel cells and electronic ceramics: a collection of papers presented at the 39th International Conference on Advanced Ceramics and Composites, January 25-30, 2015, Daytona Beach, Florida

Content: 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. Kuhn, 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