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Tantalum oxide (TaO 3 ) nanosheets coated on the surface of a LiCoO 2 cathode decrease its interfacial resistance in a solid-state battery by two orders of magnitude. Since the interfacial resistance is ratedetermining in the solid-state system, the interfacial structure of the nanosheet is anticipated to pave the way for realising high-performance solid-state lithium batteries. The reduction in the interfacial resistance also strongly suggests that the TaO 3 nanosheet is a self-standing solid electrolyte layer with an ultimate thinness of 1 nm. It has a wide band gap and a mesh structure with openings that are almost the same in size as the lithium ion, which prevents electronic conduction and allows the penetration of lithium ions, respectively.

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Thin films of c-axis-oriented LiCoO2 were epitaxially grown by pulsed laser deposition (PLD). The ablation laser conditions greatly affect the crystal quality of the epitaxial LiCoO2 thin films. In addition, high-quality LiCoO2 thin films were found to grow without any impurity phases under relatively low oxygen partial pressure, although high pressure had been often selected to suppress the formation of Co3O4 with a lower valence state as an impurity. This result clearly indicates that the ablation laser conditions are an essential growth parameter, and that composition control is indispensable to grow high-quality complex compound thin films by PLD.

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