Document Type

Article

Publication Date

3-16-2011

Journal or Book Title

Journal of The Electrochemical Society

Volume

158

Issue

5

First Page

465

Last Page

470

DOI

10.1149/1.3552927

Abstract

In this study, amorphous lithium thio-germanate thin films were prepared by radio frequency (RF) sputtering deposition in Ar atmospheres. For the first time, new high quality lithium germanium sulfide nLi2S + GeS2 thin films, n = 1, 2, and 3, have been successfully made by RF sputtering and synthesized as new solid state electrolytes. Although these materials are unstable in air, the starting materials, target materials, and thin films made from them were thoroughly characterized by x-ray diffraction (XRD), Raman spectroscopy, SEM, x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), and impedance spectroscopy using special setups to prevent contamination. These high quality thin films did not show any cracks and pits on the surface and the ionic conductivities of the thin films are 2–3 orders of magnitude higher than reported values for similar lithium containing oxide thin films. In this way, this work may provide a new way for developing new thin-film electrolytes for solid state lithium ion batteries.

Comments

This article is from Journal of The Electrochemical Society 158 (2011): 465, doi: 10.1149/1.3552927. Posted with permission.

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“© The Electrochemical Society, Inc. 2011. All rights reserved. Except as provided under U.S. copyright law, this work may not be reproduced, resold, distributed, or modified without the express permission of The Electrochemical Society (ECS). The archival version of this work was published in Seo, Inseok, Martin, Steve W., “Preparation and Characterization of Fast Ion Conducting Lithium Thio-Germanate Thin-Film Grown by RF magnetron sputtering,” Electrochemical Society Transactions, Vol. 28, no. 11, pps. 287 - 297, 2010.

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The Electrochemical Society

Language

en

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