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Real-Time Stress Measurements in Germanium Thin Film Electrodes during Electrochemical Lithiation/Delithiation Cycling

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Real-Time Stress Measurements in Germanium Thin Film Electrodes during Electrochemical Lithiation/Delithiation Cycling (http://jes.ecsdl.org/content/162/14/A2840)

Siva P. V. Nadimpalli, Rajasekhar Tripuraneni, and Vijay A. Sethuraman

ABSTRACT: An in situ study of stress evolution and mechanical behavior of germanium as a lithium-ion battery electrode material is resented. Thin films of germanium are cycled in a half-cell configuration with lithium metal foil as counter/reference electrode, with 1M LiPF6 in ethylene carbonate, diethyl carbonate, dimethyl carbonate solution (1:1:1, wt%) as electrolyte. Real-time stress evolution in the germanium thin-film electrodes during electrochemical lithiation/ delithiation is measured by monitoring the substrate curvature using the multi-beam optical sensing method. Upon lithiation a-Ge undergoes extensive plastic deformation, with a peak compressive stress reaching as high as −0.76 ± 0.05 GPa (mean ± standard deviation). The compressive stress decreases with lithium concentration reaching a value of approximately −0.3 GPa at the end of lithiation. Upon delithiation the stress quickly became tensile and follows a trend that mirrors the behavior on compressive side; the average peak tensile stress of the lithiated Ge samples was approximately 0.83 GPa. The peak tensile stress data along with the SEM analysis was used to estimate a lower bound fracture resistance of lithiated Ge, which is approximately 5.3 J/m2. It was also observed that the lithiated Ge is rate sensitive, i.e., stress depends on how fast or slow the charging is carried out.

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Kejie Zhao's picture

Nice work, Siva!

Siva P V Nadimpalli's picture

Thanks very much Kejie!

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