Excilitas Noblelight, a specialist for industrial light source solutions, announces field testing with their Carbon Infrared (CIR) technology shows significant quality and production improvement for drying electrode slurry, an important processing step during the production of Lithium-ion batteries such as those being used in electric vehicles. Field tests at customers showed electrode slurry drying is up to 80% faster with CIR emitters compared to convection oven drying while improving both electrode conductivity and durability to deliver significantly improved battery quality.