in-situ Young's moduli of the constitutive layers in a multilayer systems (e.g. thin films, SOFCs, TBCs etc.)

This recent article presents an improved methodology to calculate in-situ Young's moduli of the constitutive layers in a multilayer systems (e.g. thin films, SOFCs, TBCs etc.)

Amit Pandey, Amit Shyam, Zhien Liu, Richard Goettler, In-situ Young's moduli of the constitutive layers in a solid oxide fuel cell, Journal of Power Sources, Volume 273, 1 January 2015, Pages 522-529

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0378775314015341 

Highlights

•A methodology to determine the modulus of functional layers in SOFCs is reported.

•In-situ Young's modulus for various functional layers is reported.

•The proposed testing methodology could be applied for other multilayer systems.