An electrical-energy-storage unit (EESU) has as a basis material a high-permittivity
composition-modified barium titanate ceramic powder. This powder is double coated
with the first coating being aluminum oxide and the second coating calcium magnesium
aluminosilicate glass. The components of the EESU are manufactured with the use
of classical ceramic fabrication techniques which include screen printing alternating
multilayers of nickel electrodes and high-permittivitiy composition-modified barium
titanate powder, sintering to a closed-pore porous body, followed by hot-isostatic
pressing to a void-free body. The components are configured into a multilayer array
with the use of a solder-bump technique as the enabling technology so as to provide
a parallel configuration of components that has the capability to store electrical
energy in the range of 52 kWh. The total weight of an EESU with this range
of electrical energy storage is about 336 pounds.