National Institute for Materials Science

Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Tsuyoshi Ohnishi

Kazunori Takada

Hideomi Koinuma

Koji Kawamoto

Yukiyoshi Ueno

Yasushi Tsuchida

Isao Sakaguchi

Masatomo Sumiya

Bui Thi Hang

Xiaoxiong Xu

Mikk Lippmaa

Eiji Fujimoto

Ken Watanabe

An Object of the invention is to obtain an all solid lithium battery having an excellent output performance. To achieve the object, a sulfide based solid electrolyte is used as an electrolyte; an oxide containing lithium, a metal element that acts as a redox couple, and a metal element that forms an electron-insulating oxide is used as a cathode active material; and the concentration of the metal element that forms the electron-insulating oxide on the surface of the cathode active material (oxide) that is in contact with the sulfide solid electrolyte is made high.

All solid lithium battery

An embodiment of the present application aims at providing a material which repeatedly undergoes a conversion reaction and an alloying reaction to have an improved columbic efficiency in a first cycle of the repeating, and thereby allowing the material to serve as a high-electrical capacity negative electrode of a lithium secondary battery. In order to attain the object, a negative-electrode material is made by mixed dispersion of (i) nanoparticles of an electrical conducting material having electronic conduction and (ii) nanoparticles of an electrode active material which is reducible to a simple substance which undergoes an alloying reaction with lithium. The electrical conducting material is a sulfide having electronic conduction, and the electrode active material is a sulfide of an element which undergoes the alloying reaction with lithium. Further, the element which undergoes the alloying reaction with lithium is silicon.

Negative-electrode material and lithium secondary battery using same

Disclosed is a device for vacuum processing that performs vapor-deposition on a substrate being heated in a vacuum chamber; the device, wherein the chamber has a light transmissible window formed in a section of the chamber; the light transmissible window and a holding part holding the substrate are connected by a linear space isolated from other parts in the chamber; a laser emitter is installed outside the light transmissible window; and the laser emitter emits a laser beam to the substrate through the linear space, thereby heating the substrate. This device enables laser heating, eliminating conventional drawbacks such as a decrease in laser output.

Device for vacuum processing

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Tsukuba, Japan

Tsuyoshi Ohnishi