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Deposition and Compositional Analysis of Garnet Solid Electrolyte Thin Films

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While the general working principle of all-solid-state batteries on a laboratory scale has nowadays already been frequently proven, one major improvement opportunity in optimizing the energy density still lies in the drastic reduction in the electrolyte thickness down to the range of a few micrometers. In this way, the overall inactive mass of the cell will be reduced and a potentially lower Li-ion conductivity compared to conventional liquid electrolytes can be counterbalanced. The focus of this chapter is on the thin film deposition of garnet structured Li-ion conductors. In the first part, different deposition approaches by wet chemical routes and gas-phase techniques are discussed. In the second part, an overview of the compositional analysis of Li-containing thin films, which is an elaborate and important part of the target-oriented development of garnet-structured thin films, is given.

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Lobe, S., Dellen, C. (2019). Deposition and Compositional Analysis of Garnet Solid Electrolyte Thin Films. In: Murugan, R., Weppner, W. (eds) Solid Electrolytes for Advanced Applications. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-31581-8_6

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