Electrochemistry

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	Modeling a Copper-deposition System Replisaurus Technologies AB, Kista, Sweden Only through advanced packaging techniques can we take advantage of state-of-the-art microelectronic devices. The flip-chip method has become a cost-effective...
	Electrochemical Machining in Appliance Manufacturing Royal Philips Electronics NV, Drachten, Netherlands Behind your clean, close shave there is an enormous amount of high technology, even in electric shavers that have been around for decades. On its...
	Reduced Metal Consumption in Electroplating Saves Big Money PEM, Siaugues, France Given the scarcity and price developments of today’s metals, virtually all of them can be counted as being ‘precious’. As a result, electroplating firms...
	Modeling Optimizes Fuel Cells Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA Automotive and other vehicular applications place their own special requirements on fuel cells. In designing a cell, many things comes into play: cell...
	ArcelorMittal Breaks Down the Physics of Corrosion Arcelormittal, France Researchers at Arcelormittal, France use modeling with COMSOL to better understand the mechanism behind delamination and underpaint corrosion and determine...
	Modeling Helps Batteries Jump on the Train of Environmental Progress GE Global Research, Niskayuna, NY To develop its own high-temperature sodium metal-chloride battery, GE formed a team spanning its Global R&D laboratories, with members in Niskayuna, NY,...

	Fuel Cell Stack A key optimization parameter in a fuel cell is the design of the reactant and product channels and inlets and outlets. Good designs require that the electrodes are well fed with a reactant and that products are removed as quickly as...
	Current Density Distribution in a Solid Oxide Fuel Cell This model presents a study of the current density distribution in a solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC). The model includes the full coupling between the mass balances at the anode and cathode, the momentum balances in the gas channels, the...
	Copper Deposition in a Trench This model demonstrates the use of moving meshes in the application of copper electrodeposition on circuit boards. In these environments, the presence of cavities or 'trenches' are apparent. The model makes use of the Tertiary,...
	Heat Transfer and Steam Reforming in a Reactor In fuel cell power generators, a steam reformer unit typically produces the hydrogen needed for the cell stack. This example illustrates the modeling of a steam reformer. The reformation chemistry occurs in a porous catalytic bed where...