Li-Si thin films for battery applications produced by ion-beam co-sputtering
- authored by
- Florian Strauß, Erwin Hüger, Paul Heitjans, Vanessa Trouillet, Michael Bruns, Harald Schmidt
- Abstract
Amorphous lithium-silicon compounds are promising materials in order to improve pure silicon as a high-capacity anode material in lithium-ion batteries. We demonstrated that it is possible to produce amorphous LixSi (x ≈ 0.4) thin films by reactive ion-beam co-sputtering of a segmented solid state target composed of metallic lithium and elemental silicon. At the surface a graded LixSiOy layer of some nanometer thickness is formed by contact with air which seems to prevent decomposition of the LixSi.
- Organisation(s)
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Institute of Physical Chemistry and Electrochemistry
Center for Solid State Chemistry and New Materials (ZFM)
- External Organisation(s)
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Clausthal University of Technology
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
- Type
- Article
- Journal
- RSC Advances
- Volume
- 5
- Pages
- 7192-7195
- No. of pages
- 4
- ISSN
- 2046-2069
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publication status
- Published
- Peer reviewed
- Yes
- ASJC Scopus subject areas
- General Chemistry, General Chemical Engineering
- Sustainable Development Goals
- SDG 7 - Affordable and Clean Energy
- Electronic version(s)
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https://doi.org/10.1039/c4ra14458a (Access:
Open)
