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:quality(80)/images.vogel.de/vogelonline/bdb/1763500/1763565/original.jpg "A battery is a device consisting of one or more electrochemical cells with external connections for powering electrical devices.")
:quality(80)/images.vogel.de/vogelonline/bdb/1760900/1760990/original.jpg "Dr. Stefan Matlok (left) and Dr. Bernd Eckardt received the Joseph von Fraunhofer Prize for developing a new generation of DC/DC converters.")
:quality(80)/images.vogel.de/vogelonline/bdb/1759200/1759219/original.jpg "Demand for stationary battery systems is rising, while at the same time it is predicted that the growing market for electric vehicles will generate an increasing supply of \"used\" car batteries. Most of these batteries can have a useful second life within a stationary battery application, provided they are installed in a suitable Battery Electric Storage System (BESS).")
:quality(80)/images.vogel.de/vogelonline/bdb/1773300/1773314/original.jpg "Menlo Micro closes $44 million in series B funding to support high-volume production of the \"ideal switch\".")
:quality(80)/images.vogel.de/vogelonline/bdb/1771700/1771767/original.jpg "A picture from the SPS Exhibition 2019 which took place in Nuremberg.")
:quality(80)/images.vogel.de/vogelonline/bdb/1771700/1771792/original.jpg "PCIM Asia 2020 concluded successfully as Asia’s leading power electronics fair.")
:quality(80)/images.vogel.de/vogelonline/bdb/1767600/1767633/original.jpg "There are two major challenges in the further development of Electric Vehicles (EV) - slow charging times and weak power. Researchers from South Korea now seem to have the solution.")
:quality(80)/images.vogel.de/vogelonline/bdb/1764300/1764330/original.jpg "To reduce the risks during developments, and make it possible to work in parallel on the hardware and software of the converter, a replica of the future hardware was needed.")
:quality(80)/images.vogel.de/vogelonline/bdb/1767500/1767579/original.jpg "Currently, extreme cold is required to achieve superconductivity, as seen in the above photo from Dias’s lab. In the photo, a magnet can be seen floating above a superconductor cooled with liquid nitrogen.")
:quality(80)/images.vogel.de/vogelonline/bdb/1767500/1767560/original.jpg "An international research group has developed a new protocol that can protect and correct the fragile quantum information in instances of errors due to qubit loss.")
:quality(80)/images.vogel.de/vogelonline/bdb/1774400/1774484/original.jpg "FINFET transistor 3D render. Fin FET transistor used for building semiconductor chips and integrated circuits at nano scale.")
:quality(80)/images.vogel.de/vogelonline/bdb/1772500/1772539/original.jpg "Samsung’s MBCFET GAA, which is formed as a nanosheet.")
:quality(80)/images.vogel.de/vogelonline/bdb/1771200/1771286/original.jpg "STMicroelectronics Collaborates with Qualcomm Technologies on Unique Sensor Solutions for Next-Gen Mobile, Connected PC, IoT, and Wearable Applications.")
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TECH TRENDS
6 energy tech trends for 2021
:quality(80)/images.vogel.de/vogelonline/bdb/1773300/1773314/original.jpg "Menlo Micro closes $44 million in series B funding to support high-volume production of the \"ideal switch\".")
ELECTRONIC SWITCH
Breakthrough new electronic switch released for production
:quality(80)/images.vogel.de/vogelonline/bdb/1771700/1771767/original.jpg "A picture from the SPS Exhibition 2019 which took place in Nuremberg.")
THE IIOT
The human element to digital transformation and the IIoT
:quality(80)/images.vogel.de/vogelonline/bdb/1771700/1771792/original.jpg "PCIM Asia 2020 concluded successfully as Asia’s leading power electronics fair.")
PCIM ASIA
PCIM Asia 2020 concluded successfully
:quality(80)/images.vogel.de/vogelonline/bdb/1771000/1771048/original.jpg "The UK Battery Industrialisation Centre, located in Coventry, England, is a publicly funded facility and can be used by any organisation with existing or new battery technology.")
BATTERY INDUSTRIALIZATION CENTRE
UK Battery Industrialization Centre almost operational
:quality(80)/images.vogel.de/vogelonline/bdb/1770500/1770511/original.jpg "Toyota’s three-wheeler EV iRoad concept.")
ELECTRIC VEHICLES
Battery swapping: A major growth driver for the electric vehicles market
:quality(80)/images.vogel.de/vogelonline/bdb/1768600/1768620/original.jpg "According to Deloitte in its 2019 Deloitte and MAPI Smart Factory Study, a number of new risks relative to smart factory initiatives have come to light, from operational to financial and strategic to compliance.")
SMART FACTORIES
Cybersecurity: The biggest threat to smart factories
:quality(80)/images.vogel.de/vogelonline/bdb/1766500/1766516/original.jpg "BMW and MINI electric vehicle prototypes.")
EV BATTERIES
BMW enters into partnership to give EV batteries a second life
:quality(80)/images.vogel.de/vogelonline/bdb/1766500/1766540/original.jpg "Improving the capacity of electricity storage is playing a major role in the transition to clean energy technologies. This has been reflected by patenting activity during 2000 to 2018 (2005 to 2018 especially).")
BATTERY TECHNOLOGY
Top 25 applicants in battery technology, 2000-2018
Galleries
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:quality(80)/images.vogel.de/vogelonline/bdb/1755000/1755026/original.jpg "Harald Fitzek, Christian Prehal and Qamar Abbas (from left) at the SAXS facility SAXSpoint 2.0 (Anton Paar GmbH): With their work at Graz University of Technology, the researchers are providing new insights into hybrid supercapacitors.")
:quality(80)/images.vogel.de/vogelonline/bdb/1724800/1724843/original.jpg "Conventional plating process. Multiple baths and equipment for plating solution and waste treatment.")
:quality(80)/images.vogel.de/vogelonline/bdb/1713000/1713006/original.jpg "Bosch introduces new MEMS sensor that utilizes semiconductor technology to provide seamless navigation")
:quality(80)/images.vogel.de/vogelonline/bdb/1765300/1765368/original.jpg "Bosch aims to make transportation as resource-friendly as possible.")
SURVEY
European believe in a variety of future powertrains
:quality(80)/images.vogel.de/vogelonline/bdb/1764600/1764660/original.jpg "Electric vehicle market 2020: As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, IDTechEx forecasts that total sales of electric vehicles will decrease by 19% to 24 million.")
ELECTRIC VEHICLES
Electric vehicle market sales to fall to 24 million in 2020
:quality(80)/images.vogel.de/vogelonline/bdb/1764100/1764163/original.jpg "Kinetic Monte Carlo atomistic simulation of the growth process of a silicon carbide nanoparticle. The figure on the left shows the surface atoms of the nanoparticle, while the figure on the right highlights various stacking defects that were generated during the growth process. The nanoparticle has a size of about 50 nm.")
MODELING OF NANODEVICES
Start of the EU project MUNDFAB
:quality(80)/images.vogel.de/vogelonline/bdb/1761000/1761039/original.jpg "Between 2000 and 2018 more than 65000 IPFs relating to electricity storage were filed at patent offices worldwide.")
ELECTRICITY STORAGE PATENTS
Main patenting trends in electricity storage
:quality(80)/images.vogel.de/vogelonline/bdb/1760200/1760206/original.jpg "Intel Capital Joins Existing Investors to Commercialize Certain Nanowire-LED Technologies for Mobile Displays")