Solid State Thin Film Batteries for Internet of Things (Energy Harvesting and Storage Europe 2014)

a. Low Battery life is a high value problem for emerging Internet of Things (Wireless Sensor Network and Wearable Computing).

b. Thinness, Cycle life, Reliability are some of the other requirements for these applications.

c. Solid State Thin Film Batteries addresses these and other battery requirements.

Bharatwaj Ramakrishnan focuses on New Business Development efforts for the Solid State Thin Film Battery & other strategic Programs at the corporate CTO office at Applied Materials. In this role, Bharatwaj works with potential customers and partners to accelerate adoption. Bharatwaj has served in Engineering Management, Product Management & Marketing, New Business Development and Venture Investment roles at Advanced Micro Devices, Spansion, Applied Materials and CalCEF clean Energy Fund. He is an intrapreneur and has led programs from ideation to commercialization. Bharatwaj has a Bachelor of Technology from the Indian Institute of Technology - Madras, a Master of Science in Semiconductors from University of Maryland, College Park and an MBA from the Haas School of Business at University of California, Berkeley.

Applied Materials is a leading manufacturer of equipment for the Semiconductor, Display and Solar industries. Over the last 4 decades, Applied materials has worked with customers to drive innovation to increase performance and reduce cost through focus in Materials Engineering & Thin Film deposition. Applied is bringing these capabilities to Thin Film Batteries.