Pulsed Laser Deposition and Characterization of Heteroepitaxial LiMn2O4/La0.5Sr0.5CoO3 Bilayer Thin Films as Model Lithium Ion Battery Cathodes
Abstract
Epitaxial LiMn2O4 (LMO)/La0.5Sr0.5CoO3 (LSCO) bilayer thin films were grown on single crystalline SrTiO3 (STO) (111) substrates as model lithium ion battery cathodes. The LSCO layer was used as an electrically conducting buffer layer for electrochemical testing. The LMO and LSCO layers were both epitaxial, with sub-nano flat LMO/LSCO interfaces as seen by X-ray diffraction, synchrotron X-ray scattering, and high-resolution transmission electron microscopy (HRTEM), but with a large LMO surface roughness due to the relatively large lattice mismatch with LSCO. Three-dimensional islands and depressions were formed on the strain-relaxed LMO layer, and misfit dislocations at the LMO/LSCO interface were discerned through HRTEM imaging, suggesting a Stranski–Krastanov (SK) mode thin-film growth. A crystalline structural change from cubic spinel at the LMO surface and interior to tetragonal oxygen-deficient LMO at the LMO/LSCO interface was examined. Furthermore, electrochemical tests along with in situ synchrotron X-ray scattering measurements on the epitaxial LMO/LSCO bilayers showed a significant loss of capacity after the first cycle, which was attributed to an electrical conductivity loss of the LSCO buffer layer due to irreversible lattice oxygen loss.
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- Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL (United States)
- Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
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- Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States); Energy Frontier Research Centers (EFRC) (United States). Center for Electrical Energy Storage (CEES)
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- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)
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- AC02-06CH11357
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- Journal Name:
- ACS Applied Nano Materials
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- Journal Volume: 1; Journal Issue: 2; Journal ID: ISSN 2574-0970
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- American Chemical Society (ACS)
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- United States
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- English
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- 25 ENERGY STORAGE; LiMn2O4; characterization; conductive buffer layer; crystal structure; hetero-epitaxial thin film; interface; lithium ion battery
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Yu, Xiankai, Chen, Xiao, Buchholz, D. Bruce, Li, Qianqian, Wu, Jinsong, Fenter, Paul A., Bedzyk, Michael J., Dravid, Vinayak P., and Barnett, Scott A. Pulsed Laser Deposition and Characterization of Heteroepitaxial LiMn2O4/La0.5Sr0.5CoO3 Bilayer Thin Films as Model Lithium Ion Battery Cathodes. United States: N. p., 2018.
Web. doi:10.1021/acsanm.7b00133.
Yu, Xiankai, Chen, Xiao, Buchholz, D. Bruce, Li, Qianqian, Wu, Jinsong, Fenter, Paul A., Bedzyk, Michael J., Dravid, Vinayak P., & Barnett, Scott A. Pulsed Laser Deposition and Characterization of Heteroepitaxial LiMn2O4/La0.5Sr0.5CoO3 Bilayer Thin Films as Model Lithium Ion Battery Cathodes. United States. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsanm.7b00133
Yu, Xiankai, Chen, Xiao, Buchholz, D. Bruce, Li, Qianqian, Wu, Jinsong, Fenter, Paul A., Bedzyk, Michael J., Dravid, Vinayak P., and Barnett, Scott A. Tue .
"Pulsed Laser Deposition and Characterization of Heteroepitaxial LiMn2O4/La0.5Sr0.5CoO3 Bilayer Thin Films as Model Lithium Ion Battery Cathodes". United States. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsanm.7b00133. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1483643.
@article{osti_1483643,
title = {Pulsed Laser Deposition and Characterization of Heteroepitaxial LiMn2O4/La0.5Sr0.5CoO3 Bilayer Thin Films as Model Lithium Ion Battery Cathodes},
author = {Yu, Xiankai and Chen, Xiao and Buchholz, D. Bruce and Li, Qianqian and Wu, Jinsong and Fenter, Paul A. and Bedzyk, Michael J. and Dravid, Vinayak P. and Barnett, Scott A.},
abstractNote = {Epitaxial LiMn2O4 (LMO)/La0.5Sr0.5CoO3 (LSCO) bilayer thin films were grown on single crystalline SrTiO3 (STO) (111) substrates as model lithium ion battery cathodes. The LSCO layer was used as an electrically conducting buffer layer for electrochemical testing. The LMO and LSCO layers were both epitaxial, with sub-nano flat LMO/LSCO interfaces as seen by X-ray diffraction, synchrotron X-ray scattering, and high-resolution transmission electron microscopy (HRTEM), but with a large LMO surface roughness due to the relatively large lattice mismatch with LSCO. Three-dimensional islands and depressions were formed on the strain-relaxed LMO layer, and misfit dislocations at the LMO/LSCO interface were discerned through HRTEM imaging, suggesting a Stranski–Krastanov (SK) mode thin-film growth. A crystalline structural change from cubic spinel at the LMO surface and interior to tetragonal oxygen-deficient LMO at the LMO/LSCO interface was examined. Furthermore, electrochemical tests along with in situ synchrotron X-ray scattering measurements on the epitaxial LMO/LSCO bilayers showed a significant loss of capacity after the first cycle, which was attributed to an electrical conductivity loss of the LSCO buffer layer due to irreversible lattice oxygen loss.},
doi = {10.1021/acsanm.7b00133},
journal = {ACS Applied Nano Materials},
number = 2,
volume = 1,
place = {United States},
year = {Tue Jan 02 00:00:00 EST 2018},
month = {Tue Jan 02 00:00:00 EST 2018}
}
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