Power is usually a big concern for mobile devices, and finding ways to improve efficiency is the holy grail for smartphones, tablets and even other applications like electric vehicles. This is why developers have been coming up with ways to improve the use of batteries on these devices, which includes alternative sources, such as solar, inductive and even motion-based charging.
Researchers at the Jacobs School of Engineering at University of California San Diego are focusing on a different means to improve efficiency, though. Their technology involves an improved algorithm that enables phone batteries to charge two times faster than conventional Li-Ion batteries. These power packs also run more efficiently, and cost 25% less to produce.
The team actually got a $460,000 funding from the DoE’s ARPA-E project, as part of a $9.6 million grant to develop more efficient battery tech.
In gist, the new algorithm moves away from using voltage to determine battery charge, which is a crude way of measurement. Rather, the researchers’ new algorithm actually tries to determine charge in each of the cell’s particles.
Check out the press release below for a (semi) technical explanation of how the new technology works. This will not only find its way to mobile phones, mind you, given the mention of battery-powered automobiles and other devices.
SOURCES UCSD
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