An Impedance Interpretation of Small Amplitude Cyclic Voltammetry: II . Theoretical Analysis of Systems that Exhibit Pseudoinductive Behavior

Transform analysis is used to derive the small amplitude cyclic voltammetric (SACV) response of an equivalent circuit for an interface that exhibits pseudoinductive behavior. The predicted response contains both transient and steady‐state contributions. The steady‐state contribution exhibits hysteresis, and the hysteresis current is predicted to change sign with increasing voltage sweep rate as the reactive behavior becomes dominated by the parallel capacitance. Numerical analysis is used to illustrate the dependence of the steady‐state response on the voltage sweep rate, and the calculated SACV response is compared with the behavior of the circuit in the complex impedance plane.