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VOLUME 37 - NUMBER 9


Product Preview: The Battery Show, SMTA Guadalajara, IMAPS


THE GLOBAL ELECTRONICS PUBLICATION September, 2022


Innovative Testing Solutions for the EV Market


By David Sigillo, Vice President, Seica, Inc.


HAVERHILL, MA — The rapid rise in demand for electrical vehicles (EVs) within the automotive mar- ket is presenting new challenges for manufacturers, in terms of process, and, in particular, testing. Inno-


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vative, dedicated test solutions are needed. Since the EV market began in earnest in the


U.S. roughly 15 years ago, the battery market has been expanding dramatically. It now includes — in addition to automobiles — buses, long haul trucks, commercial vehicles, snow- mobiles, electric bikes, trains, and even airplanes (both autonomous and passen- ger versions). Initiatives to reduce climate change,


as well as recent disruptions in multiple areas of the economic landscape, espe- cially regarding energy, have resulted in massive investments in battery tech- nologies. These include prismatic, pouch, cylindrical, solid state, and oth- ers.


Battery Testing One of the main concerns of many


Seica, Inc., staff including author David Sigillo (far right) with the Pilot BT flying probe tester.


Microbial Biofilms for Electricity Generation


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AMHERST, MA — Researchers at the University of Massachu- setts Amherst have engineered a biofilm that harvests the energy from evaporation and converts it to electricity. This biofilm has the potential to revolutionize the world of wearable elec- tronics, powering everything from personal medical sen- sors to electronic devices. The technology is “green”


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because this biofilm, a sheet of bacterial cells about the thickness of a sheet of paper, is produced naturally by an engineered version of the bac- teria Geobacter sulfurreduc - ens. This bacteria is known to produce electricity and has been used previously in “mi- crobial batteries” to power electrical devices.


that the bacteria is properly cared for and fed a constant diet. By contrast, this new biofilm, which can supply as much ener- gy as a comparably sized battery,


OEMs, integrators, and new startups in- volved in battery manufacturing, is the need to increase production throughput, while improving the reliability of the


Continued on page 24 Major


Materials HOUSTON, TX — Researchers have for the first time experi- mentally discovered that a cubic boron arsenide crystal offers high carrier mobility for both electrons and holes — the two ways in which a charge is carried in semiconducting material — suggesting a major advance for next-gen electronics. While earlier predictions


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works continuously because it is dead and doesn’t need to be fed.


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had theorized that the crystal could exhibit simultaneously high electron and hole mobility, recent work by researchers across the United States, includ- ing the University of Houston, MIT, the University of Texas at Austin, and Boston College, have experimentally validated the high carrier mobility of this ma- Continued on page 6


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