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Welcome to the HI-CONDELEC project

 Design of Highly Conductive Solid Thin Film Electrolyte for Stack Integration within Optical and Energy Storage Applications

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2009 : the project is now finished

The HI-CONDELEC project is supported by the European Commission<//u> through the Sixth Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development.

HI-CONDELEC is dedicated to the development of thin films of a high conductive solid ionic conductor for Lithium.

Promising applications areas for thin film manufactured materials are micro batteries (electrochemical energy storage), micro-supercapacitors (energy impulsion) and electrochromic devices (ie. smart windows or displays). Here, the challenge today lies in the development of solid electrolytes (glasses and crystallized materials) and thin film technology would provide new physical properties (very low electronic conductivity) and increased chemical and mechanical stability etc. Thin film solid electrolytes require rather specific properties that sometimes are difficult to obtain at the same time, therefore the main S&T objective of the HI-CONDELEC project is to develop fundamental knowledge in order to enable an optimum design of the solid lithium conducting glass electrolytes with predefined physical and chemical characteristics. A multidisciplinary RTD approach combining simulation, theory, experiment, validation and use has been chosen, in order to maximise the fundamental understanding of :

• Ionic and electronic conductivity phenomena
• Thermo-electro-mechanical behaviour