Mechanical stability of Pd/Ti thin films during hydrogen (de)sorption at different applied partial pressure levels of hydrogen

In this work, mechanical stability and kinetics of hydrogen (de)sorption of thin Palladium films (100 nm) magnetron sputter deposited on a magnetron sputtered Titanium intermediate layer were studied. In particular of two film morphologies, an open voided columnar morphology and a compact columnar morphology, the substrate-induced stress and its...