Wright Energy Institute

Micro Battery Design and Development for Specialty Market

The Micro Battery Design and Development for Specialty Market student team will work to resolve some special characters and requirements for the battery designed, which are differentiated from regular batteries currently available on the market. Micro Battery, as the name suggests, has very limited size (volume) so that the specifications for a micro battery needs to be more specific, pinpoint, towards a given application (specialty). For example, with the same micro sized format, one micro battery design may focus on capacity, while the other one may concentrate on maximized instantaneous power (discharge pattern). Therefore, micro battery design involves whole sets of unique theory, principle and practical techniques. Materials are the fundamental components for a micro battery. MSE is a perfect match academically. The project design parameters and performance criteria this student team will work toward are based on each individual product, identified during the initial micro battery application search. This student team will work to provide full product design and prototype cycle. However, the prototype the student team will work to create will be focused on the feasibility verification, such as the power yield of materials under the limit of a given micro battery parameters, and it may not be accurate in terms of physical format. The outcomes this student team will work toward include: 1. Identify and report multiple applications which demand micro batteries as the basic power source; 2. One specific micro battery design for a micro sized flying device, such as a very light and small sized drone 3. One specific micro battery design for a micro sized device immersing into the water, such as a micro sized, self-powered submarine. 4. Specific materials provide high efficiency to connect the positive and negative electrode to the application circuit. 5. Specific method to connect the materials in “4” inside the micro battery.