Patent ID: 11876231
Assignee: APPLIED MATERIALS, INC.
Field: Electrical machinery, apparatus, energy (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  C  Y | IPC C  H

Claim 9:
10. A method of forming an electrode structure, comprising:
forming a first diffusion barrier layer on a copper foil, wherein the first diffusion barrier layer comprises titanium (Ti), molybdenum (Mo), tungsten (W), zirconium (Zr), hafnium (Hf), niobium (Nb), tantalum (Ta), or combinations thereof;
forming a wetting layer on the first diffusion barrier layer, wherein the wetting layer is selected from silicon (Si), tin (Sn), aluminum (Al), germanium (Ge), antimony (Sb), lead (Pb), bismuth (Bi), gallium (Ga), indium (In), zinc (Zn), cadmium (Cd), magnesium (Mg), oxides thereof, nitrides thereof, or combinations thereof; and
forming a lithium metal layer on the wetting layer.