Silver arsenate amorphous electrolyte batteries: conduction characteristics and electrochemical performance

Transport properties of silver ion conducting ternary amorphous solid electrolytes, XAgI[(1 − X)( yAg 2O zAs 2O 3)] and XAgI[(1 − X)( yAg 2O zAs 2O 5)] for 30⩽ X⩽70 mol% AgI and 0.20 ⩽( z/y) ⩽3.0 were characterized in a two step process to determine the highest ion conducting composition. Interesting results were obtained by the variation of Glass Former to Glass Modifier ratio ( z/y) and AgI content ( X). Some of the results were previously reported with z/y as a variable parameter for a constant concentration of X. The values of z/y were maintained at the best conducting compositions as derived from the previous work, and the present study reports the conduction characteristics with X as a variable parameter. The best conducting amorphous electrolytes in these two systems were used in the fabrication of solid-state batteries, and their electrochemical performance has been evaluated. A comparison of the solid-state cells with amorphous and polycrystalline electrolytes was undertaken with regard to the current discharge profiles and the cell capacities.