Abstract
Energy generation and storage technologies continue to play a fundamental role in accelerating the integration of high-tech applications in our lives. For example, many of today’s mobile and transport applications rely on energy storage devices and systems. Thus it is important to keep developing such technologies. This chapter discusses some of the state-of-the-art characterization techniques that are used to investigate the performance and quality of laboratory-made energy devices. The focus is on lithium-ion batteries, given their significant importance and dominance of the battery technology field. Other devices such as solar photovoltaics are also discussed. To study the surface science of electrodes and energy generation and storage devices, systems such as X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, Raman spectroscopy, scanning electron microscopy, energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy, transmission electron microscopy, X-ray diffraction, and atomic force microscopy are utilized. Finally, a case study utilizing some of these techniques is introduced.
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