Journal of the American Ceramic Society, Vol.99, No.3, 1064-1070, 2016
Structure of the Equilibrated Ni(111)-YSZ(111) Solid-Solid Interface
Solid-state dewetting of continuous Ni films deposited on the (111) surface of yttrium-stabilized zirconia (YSZ) was used to produce equilibrated Ni particles, and the solid-solid interface structure was determined using aberration-corrected transmission electron microscopy. The similar to 150 nm thick Ni films were annealed at 1350 degrees C in Ar + H-2 (99.9999%) at a partial pressure of oxygen of 10(-20) atm for 6 h. Transmission electron microscopy of equilibrated particles, which was conducted to analyze the structure at the interface, revealed that despite the 31% lattice mismatch between Ni and YSZ, the interface is semicoherent and a two-dimensional network of misfit dislocations was identified.