creator Selman, Jan Robert creator Nomura, Hiroshi creator Al Hallaj, Said A method and apparatus for electrostatic spray deposition (ESD) for fabricating a thin-layer yttria-stabilized zirconia (YSZ) electrolyte on a solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) anode substrate constructed of nickel-YSZ cermet. By reducing the thickness of the electrolyte, and thereby reducing the cell internal IR drop, an intermediate temperature SOFC (ITSOFC) can operate at 600 800.degree. C. A collar positioned at a distance from a discharge end of a spray nozzle enhances a spray pattern of a precursor including the electrolyte material and thus provides a very thin electrolyte layer. Submitted by Aric Ahrens (ahrens@iit.edu) on 2012-03-20T14:50:03Z No. of bitstreams: 1 7252851.pdf: 271860 bytes, checksum: 183970ef9fe3b0597e0a104009ad0bc7 (MD5) Made available in DSpace on 2012-03-20T14:50:03Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7252851.pdf: 271860 bytes, checksum: 183970ef9fe3b0597e0a104009ad0bc7 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2007-08-07 Illinois Institute of Technology 2009-05-19 2007-08-07 7,252,851 http://hdl.handle.net/10560/2653 en United States Patent Patent reformatted digital application/pdf No Copyright - United States http://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-US/1.0/ Open Access