As the energy density of battery packs for vehicles and grid energy storage increases, how can we make high-density energy systems less hazardous and more reliable? That’s the question explored by scientists at Exponent Inc., Menlo Park, Calif. Their new technical paper, “Understanding the Fundamental Mechanisms of Battery Thermal Runaway Propagation and Mitigation” published by […]
EAG Laboratories, Tempe, Ariz., announced a new addition to its wide range of advanced microscopy techniques – Plasma FIB (PFIB) services. PFIB can be used for both material characterization and failure analysis. It differs from traditional FIB as it uses various gases such as Xe, Ar, O, or N to generate a focused ion beam […]
Master Bond UV15DC80 is a dual-cure epoxy-based system that undergoes a primary cure upon UV light exposure, followed by a secondary heat cure. This unique dual-cure system helps account for shadowing issues that may occur during UV curing. This makes it especially suitable for applications involving shadowed out portions, which cannot be exposed to UV […]
A team of researchers from UCLA has unveiled a first-of-its-kind stable and fully solid-state thermal transistor that uses an electric field to control a semiconductor device’s heat movement. The group’s study details how the device works and its potential applications. With top speed and performance, the transistor could open new frontiers in heat management […]
Quantum sensing is an emerging field that holds great promise, but building the crystal substrate for these nanoscale sensors has proved challenging. Now, Berkeley researchers have developed a novel fabrication method to structure quantum sensing particles into complex 3D configurations that can accurately detect changes in temperature and magnetic fields in microscopic environments. Researchers […]
