energy storage. While the primary strategy for improving performance has focused on electrode materials, the development of new solid state ionic conducting electrolytes has been overlooked as a potential means to revolutionize electrochemical energy storage. Examples of some of the technologies ( Figure 1 ) could include: (i) dual electrolyte Li-S batteries, (ii) solidstate batteries employing Li metal anodes, and (iii) all oxide, solid-state Li-ion batteries. Indeed, the need for ionic conducting solid-state electrolytes is clear, but relatively few have been identifi ed as promising candidates. The garnet mineral structure represents a family of complex oxides spanning a broad range of natural and synthetic compositions.Initial work identifi ed Li 5 La 3 M 2 O 12 (M = Nb 5+ , Ta 5+ ) as a promising formulation having a total conductivity of 0.04 mS cm −1 at room temperature. [5][6][7] Recently, Weppner and co-workers discovered a formulation exhibiting up to 0.4 mS cm −1 at room temperature: Li 7 La 3 Zr 2 O 12 (also known as LLZO). [ 8 ] For comparison, conventional battery separators soaked in liquid electrolyte have a total conductivity of 0.4 mS cm −1 at room temperature. [ 9 ] In LLZO, edge-sharing ZrO 6 octahedra and LaO 8 dodecahedra form an isotropic skeleton framework through which Li-ions and Li-ion vacancies form a percolative network of tetrahedral and distorted octahedral sites (Figure 1 ). In addition to high conductivity, LLZO has been reported to have the unprecedented combination of stability against metallic Li, and stability in dry air. [ 8,[10][11][12] LLZO is also referred to as a "stuffed" garnet because of its relatively high Li concentration (7 moles) compared to Li 3 La 3 M 2 O 12 . In the garnet family of materials, as the Li content is increased from Li = 3 mols toward Li = 7 mols, the ionic conductivity increases by several orders of magnitude. [ 13 ] At Li contents near Li = 6.5 mols, the cubic structure undergoes a reduction of symmetry to a tetragonal polymorph and the ionic conductivity again decreases. [ 14,15 ] A maximum in the ionic conductivity at room temperature has been observed for compositions near the critical Li concentration to stabilize the cubic phase. [16][17][18][19] As such, the majority of the work in the literature has focused on understanding how the cubic phase is stabilized at high Li concentrations. [14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21] However, the understanding of the fundamental parameters that control the Li conductivity has Solid electrolytes based on the garnet crystal structure have recently been identifi ed as a promising material to enable advance Li battery cell chemistries because of the unprecedented combination of high ionic conductivity and electrochemical stability against metallic Li. To better understand the mechanisms that give rise to high conductivity, the goal of this work is to correlate Li site occupancy with Li-ion transport. Toward this goal, the Li site occupancy is studied in cubic garnet as a function of Li concentration over the com...