HANDBOOK OF SOLID STATE BATTERIES AND CAPACITORS

Solid state power sources have developed remarkably in thelast three decades owing to improvements in technology and a greaterunderstanding of the underlying basic sciences. In particular, agreater impetus has recently been placed in developing andcommercializing small, lightweight, and highly energetic solid statepower sources driven by demands from portable consumer electronics,medical technology, sensors, and electric vehicles. This comprehensivehandbook features contributions by forerunners in the field of solidstate power source technology from universities, researchorganizations, and industry. It is directed at the physicist, chemist,materials scientist, electrochemist, electrical engineer, sciencestudents, battery and capacitor technologists, and evaluators ofpresent and future generations of power sources, as a reference textproviding state-of-the-art reviews on solid state battery andcapacitor technologies, and also insights into likely futuredevelopments in the field. The volume covers a comprehensive series ofarticles that deal with the fundamental aspects and experimentalaspects of solid state power sources, an in-depth discussion on thestate of the various technologies, and applications of thesetechnologies. A description of the recent developments on solid statecapacitor technology, and a comprehensive list of references in eachand every article will help the reader with an encyclopedia of hiddeninformation. The organization of the material has been carefullydivided into thirty-one chapters to ensure that the handbook isthoroughly comprehensive and authoritative on the subject for thereader.