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Executive Briefing
Avoiding an Energy Storage Crisis:
The 8 Key Competitive Advantages of Solid State Batteries
By Steve Grady
Table of Contents
Introduction……………………… 1
Ten Key Trends Driving
Electronics Innovation……… 2
Current Power Systems
Can't Keep Pace………………… 3
Legacy Energy Storage
Solutions Becoming
Obsolete……………………………. 4
The Solution: Solid State
Batteries……………………………. 6
8 Competitive Advantages of
Solid State Batteries……. 7
Conclusion………………………. 11
For More Information……… 11
About the Author……………. 11
About Cymbet………………… 12
Introduction
If electronics manufacturers have a motto, it's probably this:
Innovate or Die.
For years, the industry's rapid rate of innovation and
consumers' insatiable demand of for greater capability and
convenience have driven each other in a relentless upward
spiral. Products that don't meet customer expectations are
quickly replaced. Companies that don't heed those expectations
rapidly lose market share.
For the most part, the electronics industry has done an amazing
job of maintaining a high rate of capability increase and cost
reduction. From wafer size to memory density to processor
speed… capacity has doubled every two to three years and will
continue to do so for many more. Innovations in system design,
chip packaging, wireless and other technologies are bringing
additional gains.
But one domain has failed to keep pace: Energy Storage.
For years, electronics manufacturers have relied on just two
technologies for offline energy storage: conventional cell
batteries and supercapacitors.
But both of these technologies are decades old and hold
marginal promise for further efficiency gains. Plus, they each
have limitations that make them unsuitable for some
applications, complicate power supply design and interfere with
the latest manufacturing processes.
The challenges have become so great that the authors of the
latest International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductorsⁱ
say, "power management is now the primary issue across most
application segments."
Fortunately, a new energy storage technology has emerged,
one which overcomes the deficiencies of chemical cell batteries
and supercapacitors, and which promises to solve the
electronics “energy storage crisis.” That technology is the solid
state battery.
This paper will demonstrate the 8 key competitive advantages
solid state batteries offer electronics manufacturers.
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