Rapid online solid-state battery diagnostics with optically pumped magnetometers

Yinan Hu, Geoffrey Z. Iwata, Lykourgos Bougas, John W. Blanchard, Arne Wickenbrock, Gerhard Jakob, Stephan Schwarz, Clemens Schwarzinger, Alexej Jerschow, Dmitry Budker

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Abstract

Solid-state battery technology is motivated by the desire to deliver flexible power storage in a safe and efficient manner. The increasingly widespread use of batteries from mass production facilities highlights the need for a rapid and sensitive diagnostic tool for identifying battery defects. We demonstrate the use of atomic magnetometry to measure the magnetic fields around miniature solid-state battery cells. These fields encode information about battery manufacturing defects, state of charge, and impurities, and they can provide important insights into battery aging processes. Compared with SQUID-based magnetometry, the availability of atomic magnetometers, however, highlights the possibility of constructing a low-cost, portable, and flexible implementation of battery quality control and characterization technology.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Article number7864
Pages (from-to)1-8
Number of pages8
JournalApplied Sciences (Switzerland)
Volume10
Issue number21
DOIs
StatePublished - Nov 1 2020

Keywords

  • Atomic magnetometer
  • Magnetic susceptibility
  • Magnetization
  • Rapid online diagnostics
  • Solid-state battery

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • General Materials Science
  • Instrumentation
  • General Engineering
  • Process Chemistry and Technology
  • Computer Science Applications
  • Fluid Flow and Transfer Processes

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