Abstract: Presented are electrochemical devices with in-stack pressure sensors, methods for making/using such devices, and battery cells with electrode stacks having an electrode separator assembly with a piezoelectric layer for in-stack pressure sensing and dendrite cleaning. An electrochemical device, such as a lithium-class secondary battery cell for example, includes a device housing with an ion-conducting electrolyte located inside the device housing. A stack of working electrodes is also located inside the device housing, in electrochemical contact with the electrolyte. At least one electrode separator assembly is located inside the device housing, interposed between a neighboring pair of the working electrodes. The electrode separator assembly includes a pair of separator layers that transmit therethrough the ions of the electrolyte, and a piezoelectric layer that is interposed between the two separator layers.

Abstract: The concepts herein provide a method and associated system for charging a battery, such as a vehicle battery that is part of a propulsion system. The method includes determining a charging current profile for a lithium metal anode of the battery, determining an increasing current charging protocol based upon the charging current profile and charging the battery based upon the increasing current charging protocol.

Abstract: Presented are electrochemical devices with in-stack reference electrodes, methods for making/using such devices, and battery cells with stacked electrodes segregated by electrode separator assemblies including thermal barriers and built-in reference electrodes. An electrochemical device, such as a lithium-class secondary battery cell, includes an insulated and sealed housing with an ion-conducting electrolyte located inside the housing. A stack of working electrodes is also located inside the device housing, in electrochemical contact with the electrolyte. At least one electrode separator assembly is located inside the device housing, interposed between a neighboring pair of (anode and cathode) working electrodes. The electrode separator assembly includes a separator layer fabricated with an electrically insulating material that is sufficiently porous to transmit therethrough the ions of the electrolyte.

Abstract: Three-dimensional (3D) NAND memory devices and methods are provided. In one aspect, a fabrication method includes forming a conductor/insulator stack over a substrate, forming a dielectric layer of a dielectric material including atomic hydrogen over a part of the conductor/insulator stack, and performing a thermal process to release the atomic hydrogen from the dielectric material and diffuse the atomic hydrogen into the conductor/insulator stack.

Abstract: Three-dimensional (3D) NAND memory devices and methods are provided. A fabrication method includes forming a semiconductor layer over a substrate, forming an opening that extends partially through the semiconductor layer, depositing a first stack layer and a second stack layer that are alternately stacked over a sidewall of the opening and over the semiconductor layer, and filling the opening with a dielectric material to form an alignment mark.

Abstract: A display panel includes a substrate, a plurality of pixel driving circuits, a plurality of first data lines, a plurality of second data lines and at least one shielding line. A first data line in the plurality of first data lines is electrically connected to pixel driving circuits in even-numbered rows in a same column of pixel driving circuits. A second data line in the plurality of second data lines that is arranged adjacent to the first data line is electrically connected to pixel driving circuits in odd-numbered rows in a same column of pixel driving circuits. The first data line and the second data line have an overlapping area therebetween. The at least one shielding line is configured to transmit a fixed voltage. The at least one shielding line constitutes a first capacitor with the first data line, and/or a second capacitor with the second data line.

Abstract: Methods and systems that use cloud-based resources and assay definition files for a local server system to control a sequencing device and process sequencing data resulting from a sequencing run for an assay are described. A method may include receiving, at a local server system, an assay definition file from a server of a cloud computing and storage system. The assay definition file may include code modules for configuring an assay. The code modules may be stored in a memory of the local server system. The server system may receive sequencing data from a sequencing device. The sequencing device may produce the sequencing data during a sequencing run performed for the assay. The server system may apply an analysis pipeline for the assay to the sequencing data. The analysis pipeline includes analysis steps executed in accordance with the code modules from the assay definition file to produce assay analysis results.

Abstract: A method for preparing fluorescent carbon quantum dots by using gas-liquid two-phase plasma is provided, which relates to the field of fluorescent carbon quantum technology. On the basis of liquid phase plasma, an inert gas is introduced to generate plasma by a gas-liquid two-phase discharge method. The introduction of inert gas facilitates the formation of discharge channels, reduces the difficulty of product synthesis, improves mass transfer rates of active particles, helps to improve synthesis rates of carbon nano-products, increases discharge contact area and enhances discharge stability. A high reaction efficiency and a short time consumption can be realized. A pulsed power supply is adopted for discharge, which has lower energy consumption compared with the direct current discharge. Moreover, the process is simple, raw materials are easy to obtain, and there is no need for catalysts, strong oxidants or strong corrosives, so the purity of the product maybe higher.

Abstract: Some embodiments disclosed herein are directed to connectors for thin-film functional separators in battery cells. In accordance with an exemplary embodiment, a thin-film functional separator for a battery cell is provided. The thin-film functional separator may be disposed within the battery cell, such as between a cathode and anode of the battery cell. The thin-film functional separator includes a porous composite membrane that includes a microporous substrate and a coating layer, and includes a lead extending from the porous composite membrane. The lead extending from the porous composite membrane is coupled to an external conductive tab using a mechanical connector that electrically couples the external conductive tab to the lead extending from the porous composite membrane. Other embodiments may be disclosed or claimed.

Abstract: An enclosure for a prismatic battery cell include first side surfaces, second side surfaces connected between the first side surfaces, a top surface connected between the first side surfaces and the second side surfaces, and a bottom surface connected between the first side surfaces and the second side surfaces. The first side surfaces, the second side surfaces, the top surface and the bottom surface are configured to receive a battery cell stack. The second side surfaces, the top surface and the bottom surface expand/contract to allow guided expansion/contraction of the enclosure in a first direction while limiting expansion in second and third directions transverse to the first direction.

Abstract: A battery includes multiple stacked cells. Each cell includes an anode layer and a cathode layer separated by a permeable separator. At least one temperature probe structure is disposed on the permeable separator between the anode layer and the cathode layer of a first cell of the stacked cells. The temperature probe structure includes at least a first material partially coating the permeable separator and a second material partially coating the permeable separator. The first material overlaps with the second material at an overlap region. A first sensor output terminal is connected to the first material and a second sensor terminal is connected to the second material. A voltage differential between the first sensor output terminal and the second sensor output terminal corresponds to an average temperature of the overlap region.

Abstract: Presented are electrochemical devices with in-stack reference electrodes, methods for making/using such devices, and battery cells with stacked electrodes segregated by electrode separator assemblies having built-in reference electrodes. An electrochemical device includes a protective outer housing that contains an ion-conducting electrolyte. A stack of working electrodes is packaged inside the device housing in electrochemical contact with the electrolyte. At least one electrode separator assembly is located inside the housing, interposed between a neighboring pair of these working electrodes. The electrode separator assembly includes an electrically insulating separator sheet with a reference electrode. A tab pocket, which projects from an end of the separator sheet, includes a tab chamber with a chamber opening. An electrode tab is formed with an electrically conductive material and attached to the tab pocket.

Abstract: A method for controlling charging of a battery to minimize or avoid lithium plating. The method may include charging the battery during with a first charge current having a first charge profile, monitoring charging of the battery with the first charge current, and thereafter charging the battery with a second charge current having a cathode charge profile to prevent a cathode potential of the battery from exceeding a cathode threshold.

Abstract: A method of making a reference electrode assembly for an electrochemical cell according to various aspects of the present disclosure includes providing a subassembly including a separator layer and a current collector layer coupled to the separator layer. The method further includes providing an electrode ink including an electroactive material, a binder, and a solvent. The method further includes creating a reference electrode precursor by applying an electroactive precursor layer to the current collector layer. The electroactive precursor layer covers greater than or equal to about 90% of a superficial surface area of a surface of the current collector layer. The electroactive precursor layer includes the electrode ink. The method further includes creating the reference electrode assembly by drying the electroactive precursor layer to remove at least a portion of the solvent, thereby forming an electroactive layer. The electroactive layer is solid and porous.

Abstract: A system for inspecting a battery component includes a heating device configured to heat a surface of the battery component to a selected temperature, an optical-visible imaging device configured to take an optical image of the surface, a thermal imaging device configured to take a thermal image of the surface, and a processor configured to acquire the optical image and the thermal image. The processor is configured to correlate the thermal image with the optical image, identify a feature of interest in at least one of the optical image and the thermal image, determine a geometric characteristic and a temperature characteristic associated with the feature of interest, and determine whether the feature of interest is a defect based on the geometric characteristic and the temperature characteristic.

Abstract: The present application provides a semiconductor device and a manufacturing method thereof and a memory system. The manufacturing method of the semiconductor device includes: forming a dielectric layer on a stack layer, wherein memory channel structures penetrating through the stack layer along a first direction are disposed in the stack layer, and the first direction is parallel to a stacking direction of the stack layer; forming a plurality of openings penetrating through the dielectric layer along the first direction, with the rest of the dielectric layer forming top selective gate cut lines, wherein the plurality of openings are arranged as being spaced apart along a second direction, one of the top selective gate cut lines is located between two adjacent ones of the openings in the second direction, and the first direction intersects the second direction; and forming a top selective gate layer in the plurality of openings.

Abstract: A method for predicting a day-ahead wind power of wind farms, comprising: constructing a raw data set based on a correlation between the to-be-predicted daily wind power, the numerical weather forecast meteorological feature and a historical daily wind power; obtaining a clustered data set and performing k-means clustering, obtaining a raw data set with cluster labels, and generating massive labeled scenes based on robust auxiliary classifier generative adversarial networks; determining the cluster label category of the to-be-predicted day based on the known historical daily wind power and numerical weather forecast meteorological feature, and screening out multiple scenes with high similarity to the to-be-predicted daily wind power based on the cluster label category; and obtaining the prediction results of the to-be-predicted daily wind power at a plurality of set times based on an average value, an upper limit value and a lower limit value of the to-be-predicted daily wind power.

Abstract: Disclosed is a middle frame assembly, including a middle plate and a frame disposed around an outer edge of the middle plate, where the middle plate includes a first carbon fiber reinforced resin composite material base body and a first metal plating layer compounded on a surface of the base body. Some embodiments of this application further provide a preparation method for a middle frame assembly and an electronic device in the middle frame assembly. Some embodiments of this application use a carbon fiber reinforced resin composite material as a middle plate base body of the middle frame assembly.

Abstract: A monitoring assembly for an electrochemical cell of a secondary lithium battery includes a porous sensory structure and a transducer. The porous sensory structure includes a sensory layer disposed on a major surface of a porous separator and a buffer layer disposed between the sensory layer and a facing surface of a negative electrode layer. The buffer layer electrically isolates the sensory layer from the facing surface of the negative electrode layer. The sensory layer includes an electrically conductive material and is configured to produce a response to an input signal or to a physical stimulus received within the electrochemical cell. The transducer is configured to process the response produced by the sensory layer to generate an output signal indicative of a diagnostic condition within the electrochemical cell.