RT Journal Article T1 Highly oriented and fully dense CGO films prepared by spray-pyrolysis and different precursor salts. A1 Dos-Santos-Gómez, Lucía A1 Zamudio-García, Javier A1 Porras-Vázquez, José Manuel A1 Ramírez-Losilla, Enrique A1 Marrero-López, David K1 Pilas de combustible K1 Electroquímica AB CeO2–based thin films are prepared by spray-pyrolysis deposition from different aqueous precursor solutions containing nitrate, chloride or acetate salts. The morphology and orientation growth strongly depends on theprecursor type. Acetate solutions lead to dense films with improved microstructural features, i.e. uniform filmthickness and a low roughness of 1.5 nm. Films with different Gd-content (Ce1-xGdxO2-x/2, 0≤x≤0.2, CGO) areprepared from acetate salts. These films show a (200) preferred orientation growth, regardless of the substratetype, i.e. fused quartz and polycrystalline ceramics. The in-plane conductivity of the films on quartz is lower thanthat of the bulk material, possibly due to the different thermal mismatch between the substrate and the film.These CGO films are also evaluated as protective layers to prevent the reaction between the Zr0.84Y0.16O1.92(YSZ) electrolyte and the La0.6Sr0.4Co0.2Fe0.8O3-δ (LSCF) cathode. The electrode efficiency of LCSF improvesgreatly after the introduction of a 150 nm thin CGO interlayer PB Elsevier YR 2020 FD 2020-03-19 LK https://hdl.handle.net/10630/28459 UL https://hdl.handle.net/10630/28459 LA eng DS RIUMA. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Málaga RD 20 ene 2026