Results for thick electrolyte samples were similar. In Fig. , metal filaments in a thicker solid electrolyte disc (250 μm, as compared to 30 μm as in Fig. ) are also observed to deflect under load. Growing dendrites deflected towards the loading axis (Fig. ), with the crack plane oriented normal to the page (Fig. ). This result shows that compressive stresses may be used to mitigate dendrite propagation in electrolyte samples of similar thickness to those commonly studied in literature.