Advanced Characterization of Ceramic State Polymer Electrolyte at Radio Frequencies

Two newly developed non-contact dielectric measurement techniques were applied to characterize the complex permittivity spectra of a ceramic state polymer electrolyte. The Capacitance Bridge was employed to measure the electrolyte sample in a frequency range from 50 Hz to 20 KHz with a novel air gap method. The newly designed in-waveguide measurement by VNA (vector network analyzer) was applied to measure the electrolyte in the frequency range from 8.2 GHz to 40 GHz. Both methods are newly developed non-contact techniques and there was no physical contact on the polymer sample film surface during the measurement. The weak contact error in traditional measurement could be completely avoided in these non-contact methods. The ionic conductivity and complex electrical conductivity can be derived from the accurate complex dielectric spectra.