An electrical-energy-storage unit (EESU) has as a basis material a
high-permittivity composition-modified barium titanate ceramic powder.
This powder is single coated with aluminum oxide and then immersed in a
matrix of poly(ethylene terephthalate) (PET) plastic for use in
screen-printing systems. The ink that is used to process the powders via
screen-printing is based on a nitrocellulose resin that provide a binder
burnout, sintering, and hot isostatic pressing temperatures that are
allowed by the PET plastic. These lower temperatures that are in the
range of 40.degree. C. to 150.degree. C. also allows aluminum powder to
be used for the electrode material. The components of the EESU are
manufactured with the use of conventional ceramic and plastic fabrication
techniques which include screen printing alternating multilayers of
aluminum electrodes and high-permittivity composition-modified barium
titanate powder, sintering to a closed-pore porous body, followed by
hot-isostatic pressing to a void-free body. The 31,351 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 at least
52.22 kWh of electrical energy. The total weight of an EESU with this
amount of electrical energy storage is 281.56 pounds including the box,
connectors, and associated hardware.