DETECTION OF THE INSTANTANEOUS ACCELERATION USING SUPERIONIC CONDUCTING CERAMICS

If ionic conducting, highly defective crystals are stopped by impactio n, the mobile ions are accelerated inside the conduction plane. Theref ore, an electric field corresponding to the separation of positive and negative charges approaches during a period of I ps. Simultaneously a n inertia emf is measured between the electrodes of the galvanic cell, which is directly proportional to the mass to charge ratio of the mob ile charge carriers, to the length of the galvanic cell and to the ins tantaneous acceleration. In this work the effect of the inertia forces on mobile cations in solid electrolytes for the first time is investi gated on ceramic materials. (C) 1997 Published by Elsevier Science Ltd .