Self-supporting thin-film solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC)
Référence
01765-01
Mots-clés
Statut des brevets
French patent application FR20070060124 filed on December 20th, 2007 entitled “Procédé de fabrication d’une pile à combustible en couches minces à oxyde solide dite SOFC”
Inventeurs
Pascal BRAULT
Statut commercial
Research agreement, exclusive or non exclusive licenses
Laboratoire
Groupe de recherches sur l’énergétique des milieux ionisés (GREMI – UMR6606) – Université d’Orléans, France, http://www.univ-orleans.fr/gremi/
Description
CONTEXT
The fuel cell are used in many applications and are regarded as a possible alternative to fossil fuels. In fact, these batteries allow to convert directly a source of chemical energy, for example, hydrogen, or ethanol in electrical energy.
TECHNICAL DESCRIPTION
It is proposed a manufacturing process of a thin-film solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) with at least an anode (2), an electrolyte (1) and a remarkable cathode (3) in that it has at least the following steps of:
– deposits by magnetron sputtering of an electrolyte (1) on a first electrode (2)
– deposits by magnetron sputtering of a second electrode (3) on the electrolyte (1)
BENEFITS
– Versatile integrated process
– Clean and economic process
– Precise control of densities/porosity, stoichiometry of deposited films
INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS
The use of low temperature thin-film solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) concerns the auxiliary of power for domestic applications and in the transport (food, air conditioning,…)
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