Miniature Fuel cell with Monolithically Fabricated Si Electrode -First prototype with Au-Pd-Pt multilayer catalyst-

Abstract

Our first fuel cell prototype with a novel Au-Pd-Pt catalyst successfully demonstrated power generation. In order to reduce amount of platinum group metals and obtain high CO tolerance, electrochemical atomic layer depositions of Pd and Pt were applied on the porous Au. 5 ML Pd and sub-ML Pt deposition was attempted and amounts of Pd and Pt were electrochemically estimated to be 125 μg/cm2 and 6 μg/cm2, respectively. No catalyst poisoning to 100 ppm CO was observed during the power generation. Though the peak power was poor around 100 mW/cm2, results were satisfying for the first prototype.