A novel vacuum dip-coating method has been adopted to form a dense thin yttrium stabilized zirconia (YSZ) layer on the pre-fired Ni/YSZ anode substrate. Scandia-stabilized Zirconia (ScSZ) was screen-printed onto the YSZ layer as the cathode backbone material and co-fired in a single step. Sm0.5Sr0.5CoO3-delta (SSC) nanoparticles were infiltrated into the ScSZ porous layer with a loading of 29.17wt% to gain the composite cathode. Without any optimization, the cell reached a maximum power density of 0.85 W cm(-2) with an area-specific resistance of 0.914 Omega cm(2) at 750 degrees C. Copyright (c) 2013, Hydrogen Energy Publications, LLC. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.