Journal
JOURNAL OF LASER APPLICATIONS
Volume 28, Issue 2, Pages -Publisher
AMER INST PHYSICS
DOI: 10.2351/1.4942044
Keywords
remote laser cutting; lithium-ion battery; anode; cathode; single mode fiber laser; parameter optimization
Funding
- University of Michigan-Fraunhofer Alternative Energy Technologies for Transportation Program (AETT Program)
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To reduce carbon emission, transportation sector has adapted lithium-ion battery-based hybridization of gasoline and diesel engines due to its efficiency, the availability of technologies, and nationwide infrastructures. To cut prismatic and cylindrical electrodes for lithium-ion batteries, die cutting and rotary knife slitting have been used. Both techniques have disadvantages such as tool wear, process instability, inconsistency of cut quality, and redesign of mechanical cutting processes due to various battery sizes. High speed remote laser cutting overcomes these disadvantages with characteristics such as contact-free process, high energy concentration, low noise level, fast processing speed, very narrow heat affected zone, applicability to nearly all materials, and flexibility of laser power. Optimization of key parameters, or power and scanning speed, has been presented for laser cutting of electrodes for lithium-ion batteries. An acceptable clearance width is observed. The line energy is defined as dividing laser power by scanning speed and spot size. A good quality of cut surface, with no defects, such as delamination, burrs, edge bending, or microsized material attachments, is achieved with line energies between 0.8 x 10(12) and 2.5 x 10(12) J m(-3) for anode and 0.31 x 10(12) Jm(-3) and less than 3.5 x 10(12) Jm(-3) for cathode. (C) 2016 Laser Institute of America.
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