In situ cycling and mechanical testing of silicon nanowire anodes for lithium-ion battery applications

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 100, Issue 24, 2012, Pages

  Boles, Steven T ^a   Sedlmayr, Andreas ^a   Kraft, Oliver ^a   Mönig, Reiner ^a  

^a KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMORPHOUS SILICON LAYERS; FORCE SENSOR; IN-SITU; IN-SITU CYCLING; IN-SITU TENSILE TESTING; LITHIUM-ION BATTERY; MICRO-ELECTRO-MECHANICAL; SILICON NANOWIRES; ULTIMATE TENSILE STRENGTH;

ALLOYING; LITHIUM; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TENSILE TESTING; WIRE;

NANOWIRES;

EID: 84863331933     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4729145     Document Type: Article

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