. Studies on ionic conductivity of these composites revealed lithium ion transfer across the interfaces without electric field, which depended on electrode potentials. For Li 2 SiO 3 -TiO 2 , conductivity of the composites was enhanced by addition of TiO 2 and well explained by space charge layer model. With LiTiO 2 which shows lower electrode potential, the conductivity was deteriorated due to decrease in vacancies in Li 2 SiO 3 . At the interface of Li 2 SiO 3 -FePO 4 , a lot of Li ions in Li 2 SiO 3 are trapped at the interface or maybe are inserted into FePO 4 , resulting in many vacancies in Li 2 SiO 3 and lattice distortion. The results show the ionic conduction at the interface is strongly affected by the electrode potential and the importance of design of interfaces of all solid state batteries is pointed out. Lithium ion batteries (LIBs) are widely used as rechargeable batteries for portable electronic devices due to their large energy densities among currently available energy storage devices. The development of LIBs is now toward an application to large-scaled devices, such as electric vehicles and load leveling of renewable energies. [1][2][3][4][5][6] In this context, all solid state batteries employing inorganic solid electrolytes are attracting many interests because non-flammability and non-volatility of inorganic solid electrolytes enhances safety and reliability of batteries, which may be of importance for large-scaled devices. [7][8][9] In addition, metallic lithium may be used as negative electrodes of all solid state batteries because the dense solid electrolytes protect unfavorable dendritic lithium deposition on negative electrodes, which can happens for conventional LIBs with liquid electrolytes.10 Although poor lithium ionic conductivity of solid electrolytes have been mentioned as a drawback of all solid state batteries, several solid electrolytes with ionic conductivities higher than 10 â4 S cm â1 have been developed. [11][12][13][14][15][16] Recently, very high Li + conductivity of 10 â2 S cm â1 at room temperature is reported for Li 10 GeP 2 S 12 , 17 and the problem on the poor conductivity seems to be rather improved. The other point to be taken into consideration for practical use of all solid state batteries would be the interface resistance between electrolytes and electrodes. The solid electrolytes don't show fluidity and thus it is difficult to prepare good contact at interfaces where electrochemical reactions take place. What is more, recently, interfacial resistance due to the other reasons has been reported by several researchers, which could be reduced by preparing buffer layers at the interface. [18][19][20][21][22] There have been three models proposed as the origin of the interfacial resistance. The first proposed mechanism is the formation of space charge layer at the interface inside the solid electrolytes in which lithium ion concentration is reduced and the ionic conductivity of the solid electrolytes is decreased.
18, 19The second model is that the interfacial chem...