11am: Welcome and Introductions
Speaker: Ed Valigursky, VP of Sensing Sales, Luna Innovations
This session will offer a quick introduction and overview of the event agenda, review online attendance requirements and introduce our Luna CEO.
11:05am: Meet our CEO
Speaker: Scott Graeff, President and CEO, Luna Innovations
In this presentation, our CEO will share Luna’s history, mission, vision, and purpose, as well as an overview of our solutions and the customers we serve.
11:10am: Keynote Address Beyond Li-Ion High Energy and Power Cells – Market Review 2020
Speaker: Shmuel De-Leon, CEO Shmuel De-Leon Energy, Ltd.
Two segments, automotive and energy storage systems (ESS), continue to drive high growth and demand in the battery industry. In addition to the challenge of growing and developing the production capacity to meet this high market demand, there are massive efforts and resources directed at developing the next-generation batteries. This presentation will review the most promising developments in the mid-term and long-term outlook for new battery technology.
11:30am: Luna Technology and Applications Review
Speaker: Matt Davis, Director, Research & Development, Luna Innovations
Join Matt for this session where he will provide a high-level overview of Luna’s fiber-optics sensing technologies, provide insight into some of the technology applications and use cases, as well as Luna success stories in the electric-vehicle battery industry and similar markets.
12:00pm: Success Stories from Customers in…
- Design and Development: Verifying GM’s Chevy Volt Battery Cover and Liftgate Hinge Crossbar Structural Integrity
- Speaker: Edgar Calderon, General Motors
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- Testing: Introduction to Li-Ion and Solid State Fabrication and Testing at the University of Michigan Battery Lab
- Speaker: Greg Less, Technical Director, University of Michigan Battery Lab
- The University of Michigan Battery Lab is an independent user facility dedicated to the rapid prototyping and testing of lithium ion and solid state batteries across multiple device scales. In addition to device fabrication, the lab also offers material testing and device testing, as well as abuse testing and end-of-life tear down analysis. In this presentation, we will discuss how devices could be designed to take full advantage of the LUNA test and measurement system.
- Manufacturing and In-Service Monitoring: Thermal and Strain Measurements of Lithium-ion Cells, Modules, and Batteries using HD-FOS Sensors
- Speaker: David Alan Wetz Jr., Ph.D., Electrical Engineering Department, University of Texas at Arlington
- Lithium ion energy storage has widely expanded the mobility of electronic systems. Given their operational safety concerns, it is necessary that proper monitoring at the lowest level possible exists to prevent catastrophic failure. The University of Texas at Arlington (UTA) Pulsed Power and Energy Laboratory (PPEL) has been studying energy storage at high voltages and high operational power since 2010. This presentation will provide a brief overview of research on the use of Luna’s fiber optic sensing technology to measure either strain or temperature and the findings to date.
- Manufacturing Process Control: In-Situ Monitoring of Transient Strain Formation in Welds
- Speaker: Marcias Martinez, Clarkson University
- This session will share a few examples of how recent developments in distributed fiber optic temperature- and strain-sensing optical fiber can be correlated with modeled predictions for computational weld mechanics.
2pm: Luna Technology and Applications Review
Speaker: Irl Duling, Director of Business Development for TeraMetrix , Luna Innovations
This session will provide a high-level overview of Luna’s terahertz thickness measurement technologies, provide insight into some of the technology applications and use cases for process control for battery manufacturing.
2:30 pm: Day One Closing Remarks
Speaker: Ed Valigursky, VP of Sensing Sales, Luna Innovations
This session will offer a quick recap of the day's presentations and overview of the agenda for Day 2.