Solid state power sources have developed remarkably in the last three decades owing to improvements in technology and a greater understanding of the underlying basic sciences. In particular, a greater impetus has recently been placed in developing and commercializing small, lightweight, and highly energetic solid state power sources driven by demands from portable consumer electronics, medical technology, sensors, and electric vehicles. This comprehensive handbook features contributions by forerunners in the field of solid state power source technology from universities, research organizations, and industry. It is directed at the physicist, chemist, materials scientist, electrochemist, electrical engineer, science students, battery and capacitor technologists, and evaluators of present and future generations of power sources, as a reference text providing state-of-the-art reviews on solid state battery and capacitor technologies, and also insights into likely future developments in the field. The volume covers a comprehensive series of articles that deal with the fundamental aspects and experimental aspects of solid state power sources, an in-depth discussion on the state of the various technologies, and applications of these technologies. A description of the recent developments on solid state capacitor technology, and a comprehensive list of references in each and every article will help the reader with an encyclopedia of hidden information. The organization of the material has been carefully divided into thirty-one chapters to ensure that the handbook is thoroughly comprehensive and authoritative on the subject for the reader.Contents:Fundamental Aspects of Ion Transport in Solids Electrolytes (B V Ratnakumar & S R Narayan)Design and Modeling of Solid State Power Sources (J-Y Cherng)Silver Ion Conducting Solid Electrolytes (T Takahashi)Copper Ion Conducting Electrolytes (R G Linford & W S Schlindwein)Reliability and Clinical Assessment of Pacemaker Power Sources (E A Schroeppel & J H Lin)Lithium Glassy Electrolyte Batteries (S D Jones & J R Akridge)Polymer Electrode Batteries: Synthesis, Properties and Performance (B Scrosati)Technology Assessment of Lithium Polymer Electrolyte Secondary Batteries (M Z A Munshi)Novel Anodes for Solid State Batteries (R Yazami & M Z A Munshi)Advanced Batteries Based on Organosulfur Redox Chemistry (S J Visco & L C De Jonghe)Solid State Electrochromic Devices (K Kuwahara)Solid State Proton Conductors and Their Applications (S Chandra)Solid State Electrolytic Capacitors (A Nishino)Metallized Capacitors (A Yializis)Ceramic Capacitor Technology (L E Cross)and other papersReadership: Materials scientists, physicists, chemists, electrochemists and electrical engineers.Key Features:Due to the heterogeneous nature of the audience the lectures avoid being overly specialized but maintain scientific integrity while reaching across disciplines thereby making them accessible to students at all levelsExplicit contact is made between the qualitative concepts of classical psychology such as the mind and the quantitative methods of psychophysics and neurophysiology by some of today's outstanding scientistsNo other treatment of decision making takes advantage of the technical developments that have been made in the analyses of complex networks over the past decade