Title :
Nickel metal hydride battery technology
Author :
Gibbard, H. Frank
Author_Institution :
Worldwide Technol. Center, Duracell Inc., Needham, MA, USA
Abstract :
The nickel metal hydride (Ni-MH) battery is an attractive, available power source for consumer electronic applications such as portable computers, cellular communications, and camcorders. Commercially available Ni-MH batteries can substitute for nickel cadmium (Ni-Cd) batteries cell for cell, with almost indistinguishable voltage characteristics, but provide 25-40 percent more energy and are free of environmentally undesirable cadmium. Ni-MH batteries offer excellent cycle life of more than 500 cycles
Keywords :
consumer electronics; electrochemical electrodes; electrochemistry; hydrogen; nickel; power supplies to apparatus; secondary cells; Ni-H2; Ni-MH battery; applications; consumer electronic; cycle life; energy density; nickel metal hydride; power source; secondary battery technologies; voltage characteristics; Application software; Batteries; Cadmium; Consumer electronics; Corrosion; Electrodes; Hydrogen storage; Nickel alloys; Portable computers; Voltage;
Conference_Titel :
WESCON/'93. Conference Record,
Conference_Location :
San Francisco, CA
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-9970-6
DOI :
10.1109/WESCON.1993.488437
