ZEISS eMobility Solutions – From energy to eMotion
Because of the large demand for electric vehicles all over the world, the automotive industry is seeing a rise of the electric engine and powertrain. This results in increasing demands on precision and poses new challenges to the quality assurance process. ZEISS Industrial Quality Solutions is the expert when it comes to developing new testing, inspection and metrology concepts for electric vehicle components. This has been achieved with joint projects, implemented in cooperation with the automotive and supplier industry.
ZEISS eMobility Solutions features a selection of products from the ZEISS portfolio, providing unique holistic quality inspection solutions for all components of the E-Mobility: Battery, Power Electronics, E-Motor and Transmission – From energy to eMotion.
Imaging 4D Failure Mechanisms in Lithium-ion Batteries
Besides understanding the performance characteristics throughout a battery’s life, it is equally important to understand when, why, and how batteries fail. Microscopy can serve as a beneficial tool for studying battery microstructures to understand what aspects of the microstructure lead to certain failure characteristics.
With X-ray microscopy (XRM), researchers are able to perform a 4D imaging experiment over a battery’s lifetime. A fresh battery was studied intact, then subjected to aging until failure and imaged again. The results of electrochemically aged batteries were compared to those of temporally aged batteries, which showed a systematic microstructural change uniquely in response to the electrochemical aging routine.
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Carl Zeiss Microscopy Deutschland GmbH
Carl-Zeiss-Straße 22
73447 Oberkochen
Germany
Phone: +49 7364 20 3500
Email: info.microscopy.de@zeiss.com
www.zeiss.de/mikroskopie
ZEISS is an internationally leading technology enterprise operating in the optics and optoelectronics industries. In the past fiscal year, the ZEISS Group generated annual revenue totaling 6.3 billion euros in the four segments Semiconductor Manufacturing Technology, Industrial Quality & Research, Medical Technology, and Consumer Markets, and invested 13 percent of its revenue in research and development (as of 30 September 2020). ZEISS has a long tradition of similarly high expenditures for research and development, which also represent an investment in the future.
For its customers, ZEISS develops, produces and distributes highly innovative solutions for industrial metrology and quality assurance, microscopy solutions for the life sciences and materials research, and medical technology solutions for diagnostics and treatment in ophthalmology and microsurgery. The name ZEISS is also synonymous with the world’s leading lithography optics, which are used by the chip industry to manufacture semiconductor components. There is global demand for trendsetting ZEISS brand products such as eyeglass lenses, camera lenses and binoculars.