Greatly improved is an initial efficiency, which would be otherwise low as a fault, without reducing a magnitude of an initial charge capacity, which is a feature of a
lithium secondary battery using an SiO as an negative
electrode. A cycle characteristic is improved. In order to realize the improvements, a thin film of
silicon oxide formed by vacuum vapor deposition or
sputtering as an negative
electrode active material layer 32 on a surface of a collector 31. The thin film is formed preferably by means of an
ion plating method. The
silicon oxide is SiOx (0.5≦x<1.0) and a film thickness is in the range of from 0.1 to 50 μm. A vacuum vapor deposition source that is used is an SiO deposit having a
weight decrease percent (a rattler value) in a rattler test of 1.0% or less. In vacuum vapor deposition, the surface of the collector 31 is applied with a cleaning treatment in a vacuum or an
inert atmosphere and thereafter, a thin film of
silicon oxide is formed on the surface of the collector without exposing the surface of the collector to the
air atmosphere.