Study of the local structure and electrical properties of gallium substituted LLZO electrolyte materials

By Akta?, Sevda;
Published in Journal of Alloys and Compounds 2019

Abstract

The solid-state lithium batteries are more stable than the batteries with liquid electrolyte, however their performance are also worse especially due to the low ionic conduction of their electrolyte. Garnet-type Li7La3Zr2O12 is a promising solid-state electrolyte candidate for lithium batteries. In this work the influence of gallium substitution on the electrical, crystal and electronic structure properties in the Li7La3Zr2O12 material were studied. Li7-3xGaxLa3Zr2O12 solid electrolytes were synthesized by solid state reaction method and characterized by powder X-ray diffraction (XRD), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), AC impedance spectroscopy and X-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS) techniques. XRD and XAS analyses showed that the x = 0.05 sample is formed in the tetragonal phase with a space group of I41/acd:2 and the rest are formed in the cubic phase with a space group of I-43d due to strong coupling between outer shell electrons of the oxygen (O) and gallium (Ga) atoms. Electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS) studies indicated that the tetragonal phase has the highest ionic conductivity, 3.04

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