Iontra’s Headquarters | A look inside of our state-of-the-art battery laboratory
Thought Leadership
Iontra’s Denver headquarters is a hub of innovation and expertise in battery technology. Iontra employs an expert team of 100+ people including PhDs, electrical engineers, software engineers, semiconductor experts, physics-based electrodynamic simulation and machine learning experts.
Our team has decades of product development experience to ensure customers can deliver the Iontra-enabled breakthrough product performance to their customers. From optimizing existing cell performance to pioneering new cell designs, Iontra offers a comprehensive suite of services and state-of-the-art facilities to address the evolving needs of the battery industry.
This is an overview of services and solutions offered at Iontra’s Denver headquarters.
CURRENT SERVICES
Battery cell optimization
Our custom-built battery cycling hardware and advanced analysis tools allow us to identify the optimal charging methods of existing cells, while maintaining their safety.
Battery cell selection
Our thorough cell analysis capabilities help customers quickly eliminate options and select battery cells for their products that meet or exceed performance objectives.
New battery cell R&D
We offer engineering services that can identify and achieve best performance for new battery cell designs, using the minimum composition of materials required.
HARDWARE DEVELOPMENT LABORATORY
Iontra designs and builds custom cyclers to analyze current battery performance levels, identify opportunities and gaps, and deliver enhanced performance in charge speed, cycle life, and cold-temperature charging capabilities.
We’re proud to have top-of-the-line electrical testing equipment, allowing for highly accurate measurements and diagnostics. We support multiple digital electronics workstations and provide the capability to modify PCBs, cyclers, and fixtures.
Our fully equipped hardware lab for accurate measurements and diagnostics
- Oscilloscopes
- Power supplies
- Multimeters
- Function generators
- Current probes
- LCR meter
- Spectrum analyzer
ELECTRONICS ENGINEERING LABORATORY
Our lab contains large-capacity, climate-controlled cycling rooms, with a 3000+ cycling channel capacity that works with all battery formats (pouch, cylindrical, prismatic, coin) for cell sizes between 100mAh and 100Ah.
Temperature Chambers
Our Denver facility houses 19 temperature chambers and temperature rooms allow cycling cells at all temperatures ranging from –40C to 60C. Iontra’s algorithm solutions can charge cells across a wider temperature range than conventional charging, making these chambers an important asset for testing our unique benefits.
BATTERY ANALYTICS LABORATORY
Our battery analytics laboratory offers destructive physical analysis and coin cell manufacturing. We also offer high-precision electrochemical testing with 66 potentiostat channels, a Gamry 3000, and PARSTAT (Amtek).
MATERIAL DIAGNOSTIC AND TESTING LABORATORY
Our instrumentation lab facility includes a full range of cutting-edge tools that enable precise measurements and analysis including:
- Phenom XL scanning electron microscope gen 1
- Phenom XL scanning electron microscope gen 2
- Buker X-ray diffractometer D2 phaser
- Keyence VR-3050 profilometer
- Keyence VHX 7000 microscope with VH ZST lens and elemental analyzer
- Micromeritics AccuPyc II 1345 He Pycnometer
- DTA
FULL EQUIPMENT SUMMARY
Iontra is on par with the world’s leading national and private battery testing laboratories.
