Available online at www.sciencedirect.com ScienceDirect Materials Today: Proceedings 5 (2018) 22759–22763 www.materialstoday.com/proceedings 2214-7853 © 2017 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Selection and/or Peer-review under responsibility of 5th International Conference on Nanomaterials and Advanced Energy Storage Systems (INESS 2017). INESS_2017 N-type doped amorphous Si thin film on a surface of rough current collector as anode for Li-ion batteries Aliya Mukanova a , Arailym Nurpeissova a , Assem Zharbossyn a , Sung-Soo Kim b , Maksym Myronov c , Zhumabay Bakenov a * a National Laboratory Astana, School of Engineering, Nazarbayev University, 53 Kabanbay Batyr ave., Astana 010000, Kazakhstan b Graduate School of Energy Science and Technology, Chungnam National University, 99 Daehak ave., Yuseong-gu, Daejeon, 34134, South Korea c Physics Department, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, United Kingdom Abstract In this study, we report on the preparation of n-type doped ~ 400 nm thick amorphous Si thin film on a surface of 9 µm rough current collector. The electrochemical cycling test of designed anodes revealed that Si thin film on the surface of rougn exhibited stable capacity retention ( ~ 67 µAh cm -2 ) for 120 cycles. Rate capability test showed the unaltered performance of prepared electrode after applying a current rates up to 300 µA cm -2 . © 2017 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Selection and/or Peer-review under responsibility of 5th International Conference on Nanomaterials and Advanced Energy Storage Systems (INESS 2017). Keywords: rough current collector; silicon; thin film; n-type doped; amorphous; magnetron sputtering; lithium ion battery 1. Introduction Lithium ion batteries (LIBs) are the best technology among secondary battery technologies due to high volumetric and specific energy density. Meanwhile miniaturization of portable electronics, small and microscale devices requires a design of high capacity, lightweight and small size energy sources. * Corresponding author. Tel.:+7-717-270-6530. E-mail address: zbakenov@nu.edu.kz