Lithium transport through nanosized amorphous silicon layers

Nano Letters

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 1237-1244

  Hüger, Erwin ^a   Dörrer, Lars ^a   Rahn, Johanna ^a   Panzner, Tobias ^b   Stahn, Jochen ^b   Lilienkamp, Gerhard ^a   Schmidt, Harald ^a  

^a CLAUSTHAL UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Lithium permeability; lithium self diffusion; nanosized silicon; neutron reflectometry

Indexed keywords

AMORPHOUS SILICON LAYERS; ELECTROCHEMICAL MATERIALS; HIGH ENERGY DENSITIES; NANO-SIZED SILICON; NANOSTRUCTURED ELECTRODE MATERIALS; NEUTRON REFLECTOMETRY; SELF-DIFFUSION; TRANSPORT PARAMETERS;

AMORPHOUS SILICON; ISOTOPES; NEUTRON REFLECTION; SILICON;

LITHIUM;

EID: 84874982252     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: 15306992     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl304736t     Document Type: Article

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