Today, portable applications have many unique battery requirements. They require a high-energy density to provide unlimited power (both transient and continuous). They need to be lightweight with ...

When the first few thousand electric cars went on sale in California in the mid- to late 1990s, they used various different charging methods, each with its own dedicated charging stations. Given the ...

In our modern world, electricity is literally everywhere, easily assessible from a 110-volt outlet. That’s fine for running things like laptop computers and televisions, but when it comes to electric ...

Portable battery-powered devices often spend most of their life in standby mode, in which the quiescent current of an internal boost converter continuously bleeds the battery. The quiescent current ...

Batteries based on the nickel-metal-hydride (NiMH) and lithium-ion (Li-ion) chemistries have largely replaced the older nickel-cadmium (NiCd) battery in many of today’s applications. Still, NiCds are ...