Depleted layer effect species

In addition to IR problems, the restriction placed on diffusion by the thin layer configuration results in the rapid depletion of electroactive species within the layer, with effectively no concomitant replenishing diffusion from the bulk electrolyte outside of the thin layer. Consider, for example, the reduction of a species 0"+ at an electrode ... 

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To explain the fact that this species is responsible for an important electric effect on the conductivity of Sn02, we have to imagine that its presence is able to induce an important depletion layer in the semiconductor. 

Approximation (1) is a bad one despite the fact that it leads to simple mathematical solution The concentration profiles are not linear. The partitioning of species between the gel and the sample (2) is also related to the existence of the Donnan potential (7) but it is a problem even for electrically neutral species (e.g. oxygen). If the solution is stirred the effect of the depletion layer at the gel/membrane interface is negligible (3). However, it could be a problem in stationary solutions. Approximations (4) through (6) would be the most... 

The concentration of precursor gases will decrease with respect to the flow direction over the susceptor due to the consumption of growth species, which results in a tapered layer thickness. This effect is known as depletion. To compensate for the depletion it is common to taper the susceptor such that the velocity of the gases increases along the flow direction over the susceptor and thus the boundary layer will be pushed downward, resulting in a shorter diffusion for the active species to the substrate. 

The quantity S can be interpreted as the mean thickness of a diffusion layer at the electrode surface as schematically depicted in Fig. 37. In this simple picture, the electrode is separated from the turbulent bulk by a laminar sub-layer inside of which the concentration of the electroactive species depletes from the bulk value to that at the electrode surface across the (physically smaller) diffusion layer. Within this model the effects of the ultrasonic intensity and the horn-to-electrode separation emerge through their effects on the size of 8. 

Beyond the double layer, there is a depleted region named the diffusion layer with a thickness of microns, much wider than the double layer, formed during deposition by the consumption of a particular species. Fig. 7A is a plot of the concentration of an ionic species as a function of the distance from the surface of the electrode, showing the diffusion layer. The consumption of ions because of metal deposition generates a concentration gradient that, in steady-state conditions, is essentially determined by the redox reaction rate. If the consumption of ions arriving at the surface by diffusion is very high, the concentration of ions at the surface Cs is effectively zero, and the deposition process is controlled by diffusion. If the consumption is low, then the ion concentration at the surface is different from zero and the deposition is controlled by kinetics, i.e., by the velocity of the reaction. 

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