Executive Briefing Released: Avoiding an Energy Storage Crisis

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 Semiconductors 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 Executive Briefing demonstrates the 8 key competitive advantages solid state batteries offer electronics manufacturers.