The iPhone Air’s real breakthrough is its battery

The iPhone Air may be thin design EyeAnd the amount of engineering to minimize its logic board is impressive. However, according to Jean Birdchevsky, co-founder and CEO of the battery materials manufacturer They areThe original progress can be hidden inside the aluminum and glass enclosure.

“The battery of the new iPhone is quite notable,” Bordechevsky told TechCrunch. “Full volunteer, two-dimensional form-you look at the shape and it’s quite amazing” “

“I just got back from Asia and I had the opportunity to see a few of these cells,” he added. “It’s a revolutionary part of battery technology.”

Bardichavsky Knows one or two things About the battery. As Tesla’s seventh employee, he led engineering on the main roadster battery, which became the next Teslas template. Today, he leads the seal, which is producing silicone anode materials Customer Electronics And, soon, Electric vehicleThe

IPhone Air’s notch design has been possible by a technology of Apple Patent Can be called a metal battery. The original description is in the name: a metallic casing that surrounds the whole house, adds strength and physical stability. Most batteries used in consumer electronics are pouch cells, which have a soft plastic casing that is cheap to produce and somewhat swollen.

Apple has used the L-shaped battery on the iPhone for years. All the lithium ion battery swells in some degrees and the interior angle of the L is swollen when it is swollen to a pinch point.

“They are very final, and it basically makes it a bulletproof you can now make battery in any two-dimensional form,” said Birdchevsky.

Metal batteries allow Apple to create the most smaller space in the iPhone air. “They are able to go very close to the edges,” he said. It allows the battery to enter the battery for free after the various circuit boards are located.

In the end, Bordechevsky thinks that most phones can accept metallic despite their extra costs. Extra energy saving will be worth it.

It would be “very key” for small devices like AR and VR glasses, he also said he saw a few prototypes while in China. “It improves more energy density because it allows you to fit in a strange form,” says Birdchevsky. “

Apple for silicon-she-versions is probably also known as Silicon-Carbon in a complex battery that cannot transmit carbon anode into its lithium ion batteries.

“If you are bringing [a new battery design] Online, you go to a kind, ‘Do you know? Let us use yesterday’s chemistry, “said Birdchevsky.

However, the conversion to metal construction can facilitate removal of silicone anode in the near future. Pure Silicon Anodees can save about 50% more energy than the traditional taid graphite anode, but the material is at risk of swelling. Companies like CILA have created the ownership of the abscess in the material, but it still needs to be considered at the cell level.

“This will definitely help you introduce silicon on this type of device,” said Birdchevsky. “It pushes the limit of our performance even more. We always stopped this trade, and we need to handle it you still need to do it, but you can push it a little more it is it is pretty revolutionary” “