Abstract: A composition of matter suitable for incorporation into a battery electrode is disclosed. In some implementations, the composition of matter may include pores that may be defined in size or shape by several carbonaceous particles. Each of the particles may have multiple regions such that adjacent regions are separated from each other by some of the pores. Deformable regions may be distributed throughout a perimeter of each of the particles, for example, to accommodate coalescence of multiple adjacent particles. The composition of matter may also include a plurality of aggregates and a plurality of agglomerates, where each aggregate includes a multitude of the particles joined together, and each agglomerate includes a multitude of the aggregates joined together.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method for producing a metal carbide, where the method includes thermally treating a molecular precursor in an oxygen-free environment, such that the treating produces the metal carbide and the molecular precursor includes where M is the metal of the metal carbide, N* includes nitrogen or a nitrogen-containing functional group, and x is between zero and six, inclusively.

Abstract: This disclosure provides a lithium (Li) ion battery that includes an anode, a cathode positioned opposite to the anode, a porous separator positioned between the anode and the cathode, and a liquid electrolyte in contact with the anode and the cathode. The anode includes an electrically conductive substrate. A first film is deposited on the electrically conductive substrate. The first film includes a first concentration of carbon particles in contact with each other and defines a first electrical conductivity for the first film. Each of the carbon particles includes a plurality of aggregates formed of few layer graphene sheets. The plurality of aggregates form a porous structure configured to undergo a lithiation, which can include any one or more of an intercalation operation or a plating operation. The anode and the cathode can include an electroactive material. The porous structure can provide conduction between the few layer graphene sheets.

Abstract: Batteries including an electrolyte with a ternary solvent package are disclosed. In various implementations, a lithium-sulfur battery may include a cathode, an anode, and an electrolyte include a ternary solvent package. The anode may be positioned opposite to the cathode. The cathode may include a plurality of regions. Each region may be defined by two or more core-shell structures adjacent to and in contact with each other. The electrolyte may be interspersed throughout the cathode and be in contact with the anode. The ternary solvent package may include 1,2-Dimethoxyethane (DME), 1,3-Dioxolane (DOL), tetraethylene glycol dimethyl ether (TEGDME), and/or one or more additives, such as lithium nitrate (LiNO3), and 4,4?-thiobisbenzenethiol (TBT) or 2-mercaptobenzothiazole (MBT), and approximately 0.01 mol of dissolved lithium bis(trifluoromethanesulfonyl)imide (LiTFSI).

Abstract: Batteries including an electrolyte with a ternary solvent package are disclosed. In various implementations, a lithium-sulfur battery may include a cathode, an anode, and an electrolyte include a ternary solvent package. The anode may be positioned opposite to the cathode. The cathode may include a plurality of regions. Each region may be defined by two or more core-shell structures adjacent to and in contact with each other. The electrolyte may be interspersed throughout the cathode and be in contact with the anode. The ternary solvent package may include 1,2-Dimethoxyethane (DME), 1,3-Dioxolane (DOL), tetraethylene glycol dimethyl ether (TEGDME), and/or one or more additives, such as lithium nitrate (LiNO3), and 4,4?-thiobisbenzenethiol (TBT) or 2-mercaptobenzothiazole (MBT), and approximately 0.01 mol of dissolved lithium bis(trifluoromethanesulfonyl)imide (LiTFSI).

Abstract: Batteries including an electrolyte with a ternary solvent package are disclosed. In various implementations, a lithium-sulfur battery may include a cathode, an anode, and an electrolyte include a ternary solvent package. The anode may be positioned opposite to the cathode. The cathode may include a plurality of regions. Each region may be defined by two or more core-shell structures adjacent to and in contact with each other. The electrolyte may be interspersed throughout the cathode and be in contact with the anode. The ternary solvent package may include 1,2-Dimethoxyethane (DME), 1,3-Dioxolane (DOL), tetraethylene glycol dimethyl ether (TEGDME), and/or one or more additives, such as lithium nitrate (LiNO3), and 4,4?-thiobisbenzenethiol (TBT) or 2-mercaptobenzothiazole (MBT), and approximately 0.01 mol of dissolved lithium bis(trifluoromethanesulfonyl)imide (LiTFSI).

Abstract: In some implementations, a metal air battery includes a body defined by a metal anode and a cathode, a first separator layer disposed on the metal anode, a second separator layer disposed on the cathode, and a plurality of beads disposed within the body. The beads may confine a liquid electrolyte, and may be configured to release the liquid electrolyte into interior portions of the battery in response to a compression of the cathode into the body of the battery.

Abstract: In some implementations, a metal air battery includes an anode and an cathode opposite to the anode. The cathode may be formed as a textured carbon-based scaffold and include an opening into the metal air battery. The metal air battery may include a nano-fibrous membrane (NFM) containing a liquid electrolyte and a functionalized carbon structure may be disposed between the cathode and the NFM. The functionalized carbon structure may allow moisture and oxygen from ambient air to permeate through the NFM and diffuse throughout the textured scaffold of the cathode. A moisture barrier layer may be laminated over the cathode and positioned, by a user, in one of two states. When in a first state, the moisture barrier layer may seal the opening. When in a second state, the moisture barrier layer may allow the moisture and the oxygen to enter the textured scaffold.

Abstract: In some implementations, a metal air battery includes a metal anode, a cathode, a body, a nano-fibrous membrane (NFM), and a hygroscopic interphase layer disposed between the cathode and the NFM. The cathode may be a carbon-based textured scaffold including a plurality of macroporous pathways to distribute oxygen and water vapor supplied by ambient air throughout the cathode and into interior portions of the body. The NFM may include dry salts to produce a liquid electrolyte when exposed to water vapor delivered by the macroporous pathways of the cathode. The hygroscopic interphase layer may include a plurality of microporous pathways configured to drain excess quantities of the water vapor from the cathode and hydrate the dry salts with the water vapor.

Abstract: Batteries including an ex-situ electrodeposition of lithium are disclosed. In various implementations, a battery may include a cathode, an anode, and a lithium layer. The anode may be positioned opposite the cathode. The anode may include a first thin film deposited on a current collector. The first thin film may include a first plurality of aggregates decorated with a first plurality of metal nanoparticles and joined together to define a first porous structure having a first conductivity. A second thin film may be deposited on the first thin film and may include a second plurality of aggregates decorated with a second plurality of metal nanoparticles and joined together to define a second porous structure having a second conductivity that is different than the first conductivity. The lithium layer may be deposited on the first and second porous structures and may have a thickness greater than 20 microns.

Abstract: This disclosure provides a battery including a cathode, an anode positioned opposite the cathode and a carbon interface layer. The carbon interface layer includes an electrically insulating flaky carbon layer conformally encapsulating the anode. A plurality of carbon nano-onions (CNOs) defining a plurality of interstitial pore volumes are interspersed throughout the electrically insulating flaky carbon layer. An electrolyte is in contact with the carbon interface layer and the cathode. A separator is positioned between the anode and the cathode. The electrically insulating flaky carbon layer can include graphene oxide (GO). The plurality of interstitial pore volumes can be configured to transport lithium (Li) ions between the anode and the cathode via the plurality of interstitial pore volumes in a bulk phase of the electrolyte. The carbon interface layer can be configured to inhibit growth of Li dendritic structures from the anode towards the cathode.

Abstract: This disclosure provides a lithium (Li) ion battery that includes an anode, a cathode positioned opposite to the anode, a porous separator positioned between the anode and the cathode, and a liquid electrolyte in contact with the anode and the cathode. The anode includes an electrically conductive substrate. A first film is deposited on the electrically conductive substrate. The first film includes a first concentration of carbon particles in contact with each other and defines a first electrical conductivity for the first film. Each of the carbon particles includes a plurality of aggregates formed of few layer graphene sheets. The plurality of aggregates form a porous structure configured to undergo a lithiation, which can include any one or more of an intercalation operation or a plating operation. The anode and the cathode can include an electroactive material. The porous structure can provide conduction between the few layer graphene sheets.

Abstract: Systems, methods, tangible non-transitory computer-readable media, and devices associated with sensor output segmentation are provided. For example, sensor data can be accessed. The sensor data can include sensor data returns representative of an environment detected by a sensor across the sensor's field of view. Each sensor data return can be associated with a respective bin of a plurality of bins corresponding to the field of view of the sensor. Each bin can correspond to a different portion of the sensor's field of view. Channels can be generated for each of the plurality of bins and can include data indicative of a range and an azimuth associated with a sensor data return associated with each bin. Furthermore, a semantic segment of a portion of the sensor data can be generated by inputting the channels for each bin into a machine-learned segmentation model trained to generate an output including the semantic segment.

Abstract: Embodiments of this disclosure describe an electrode biasing scheme that enables maintaining a nearly constant sheath voltage and thus creating a mono-energetic IEDF at the surface of the substrate that consequently enables a precise control over the shape of IEDF and the profile of the features formed in the surface of the substrate.

Abstract: Embodiments of this disclosure describe an electrode biasing scheme that enables maintaining a nearly constant sheath voltage and thus creating a mono-energetic IEDF at the surface of the substrate that consequently enables a precise control over the shape of IEDF and the profile of the features formed in the surface of the substrate.

Abstract: Embodiments described herein are applicable for use in all types of plasma assisted or plasma enhanced processing chambers and also for methods of plasma assisted or plasma enhanced processing of a substrate. More specifically, embodiments of this disclosure include a broadband filter assembly, also referred to herein as a filter assembly, that is configured to reduce and/or prevent RF leakage currents from being transferred from one or more RF driven components to a ground through other electrical components that are directly or indirectly electrically coupled to the RF driven components and ground with high input impedance (low current loss) making it compatible with shaped DC pulse bias applications.

Abstract: This disclosure relates to method and system for determining probability of an alarm generated by an alarm system. The method may include receiving sensor data and maintenance data. The sensor data may include one or more environmental parameters and one or more trigger parameters, and the alarm is generated based on the one or more trigger parameters. The method may further include generating one or more input vectors based on the sensor data and the maintenance data, and determining a spuriosity index of the alarm based on the one or more input vectors using a machine learning model. The machine learning model may be created using historical sensor data and historical maintenance data, and the spuriosity index is indicative of the probability of the alarm.

Abstract: This disclosure relates to method and system for determining probability of an alarm generated by an alarm system. The method may include receiving sensor data and maintenance data. The sensor data may include one or more environmental parameters and one or more trigger parameters, and the alarm is generated based on the one or more trigger parameters. The method may further include generating one or more input vectors based on the sensor data and the maintenance data, and determining a spuriosity index of the alarm based on the one or more input vectors using a machine learning model. The machine learning model may be created using historical sensor data and historical maintenance data, and the spuriosity index is indicative of the probability of the alarm.

Abstract: Systems and methods for implementing a low-latency braking action for an autonomous vehicle are provided. A computing system can include a vehicle autonomy system comprising one or more processors configured to determine a motion plan for an autonomous vehicle based at least in part on sensor data from one or more sensors of the autonomous vehicle. The computing system can further include a low-latency braking system comprising one or more processors configured to determine that the autonomous vehicle has a likelihood of colliding with an object in a surrounding environment based at least in part on a previously-determined motion plan obtained from the vehicle autonomy system. In response to determining that the autonomous vehicle has a likelihood of colliding with the object in the surrounding environment, the low-latency braking system can further be configured to implement a braking action for the autonomous vehicle.

Abstract: Embodiments of this disclosure describe an electrode biasing scheme that enables maintaining a nearly constant sheath voltage and thus creating a mono-energetic IEDF at the surface of the substrate that consequently enables a precise control over the shape of IEDF and the profile of the features formed in the surface of the substrate.