A. Dubbe et al., FREQUENCY-RESPONSE STUDY OF THE KINETIC-BEHAVIOR OF NERNSTIAN SOLID-ELECTROLYTE GAS SENSORS BY PRESSURE MODULATION, Journal of electroanalytical chemistry [1992], 371(1-2), 1994, pp. 43-51
A technique is described for characterizing the response behaviour of
nernstian gas sensors to sinusoidal pressure modulation in the frequen
cy range 0.1-1000 Hz. Relaxation times down to 0.2 ms could be resolve
d for first-order kinetics. For ceria-based oxygen sensors the shape o
f the spectra indicated diffusion-controlled kinetics and provided add
itional information when compared with electrochemical impedance spect
ra. Fast relaxation times down to 2.5 ms were found at 1173 K in air f
or Pt electrodes. The pressure modulation technique avoided corrosion
effects which might be induced by alternating currents and thus made i
t possible to characterize the kinetics of carbonate-based CO2 sensors
. Relaxation times were determined down to 4.5 ms at 973 K in air for
Pd electrodes.