Smoltek’s IR blog

Wel­come to the Smoltek blog! Here, we write for share­hold­ers and prospec­tive investors. We expand on tech­ni­cal and finan­cial news, pro­vid­ing back­ground infor­ma­tion and clar­i­fy­ing what makes it note­wor­thy and how it affects our business.

The tone is infor­mal and some­times play­ful. That’s inten­tion­al. Our aim is to make it easy and enjoy­able for you to under­stand our tech­nol­o­gy and busi­ness. We believe that the most valu­able share­hold­ers and investors are those who under­stand our oper­a­tions and believe in what we do. This is a lot to ask, giv­en how tech­ni­cal­ly and com­mer­cial­ly advanced our work is. But we have faith in you.

Making every atom count in the race for scalable green hydrogen

Making every atom count in the race for scalable green hydrogen

Octo­ber 29, 2025

At the Hydro­gen Tech­nol­o­gy World Expo 2025 in Ham­burg, Elli­nor Ehrn­berg, Pres­i­dent of Smoltek Hydro­gen, joined a high-lev­el pan­el to debate one of the industry’s most press­ing chal­lenges: How can green hydro­gen be scaled fast enough—and afford­ably enough—to meet the world’s decar­boniza­tion goals? 

From Lab to Fab: Why ITRI Partnership is a game-changer for Smoltek

From Lab to Fab: Why ITRI Partnership is a game-changer for Smoltek

July 30, 2025

The recent­ly signed tech­ni­cal ser­vice agree­ment between Smoltek Semi and the Indus­tri­al Tech­nol­o­gy Research Insti­tute (ITRI) of Tai­wan changes how CNF-MIM capac­i­tors will reach the mar­ket. This part­ner­ship deliv­ers the val­i­da­tion and man­u­fac­tur­ing capa­bil­i­ties need­ed to trans­form lab­o­ra­to­ry break­throughs into com­mer­cial reality.

Smoltek breaks the 1 µF/​mm² barrier with ultra-thin profile

Smoltek breaks the 1 ÂµF/​​mm² barrier with ultra-thin profile

June 16, 2025

Smoltek Semi joins an elite club of com­pa­nies achiev­ing 1 ÂµF/​mm² capac­i­tance den­si­ty, but stands alone in reach­ing this mile­stone with an ultra-thin pro­file. This break­through unlocks the under-chip real estate that rep­re­sents the holy grail of capac­i­tor place­ment in mod­ern electronics.

How Disruptive Innovation Accelerates Industrial Adoption

How Disruptive Innovation Accelerates Industrial Adoption

April 22, 2025

While tra­di­tion­al devel­op­ment process­es often progress at a mea­sured pace, tru­ly dis­rup­tive tech­nolo­gies, such as Smoltek’s Porous Trans­port Elec­trode (PTE), can dra­mat­i­cal­ly com­press time­lines. When faced with poten­tial­ly mar­ket-chang­ing inno­va­tions, indus­tri­al enter­pris­es must choose between main­tain­ing the sta­tus quo, slow inter­nal devel­op­ment, or embrac­ing part­ner­ship with inno­v­a­tive com­pa­nies like Smoltek Hydrogen.

How Smoltek Hydrogen aligns development with customer needs – interview with Ellinor Ehrnberg

How Smoltek Hydrogen aligns development with customer needs – interview with Ellinor Ehrnberg

April 14, 2025

Tak­ing a break­through tech­nol­o­gy from the lab bench to the world mar­ket often requires col­lab­o­ra­tion with large indus­tri­al enter­pris­es. In this inter­view, Elli­nor Ehrn­berg, pres­i­dent of Smoltek Hydro­gen, explains how the com­pa­ny aligns its own devel­op­ment with that of poten­tial buy­ers while nav­i­gat­ing the com­plex jour­ney from ini­tial inter­est to strate­gic partnership.

Navigating big-tech corporate product development as a small high-tech company

Navigating big-tech corporate product development as a small high-tech company

April 10, 2025

For indus­tri­al enter­pris­es, bring­ing new tech­nolo­gies into exist­ing prod­uct lines fol­lows a struc­tured process. Under­stand­ing this process is vital for high-tech com­pa­nies seek­ing inte­gra­tion part­ner­ships. Here, we explain the sys­tem­at­ic jour­ney that gov­erns how indus­tri­al enter­pris­es eval­u­ate and adopt inno­va­tions, and how high-tech com­pa­nies can cre­ate rev­enue oppor­tu­ni­ties at each stage along the way.

Capacitors’ capacity for minimizing CO₂ footprint – a small story

Capacitors’ capacity for minimizing COâ‚‚ footprint – a small story

Feb­ru­ary 27, 2025

In an age where envi­ron­men­tal sus­tain­abil­i­ty is of utter impor­tance, it is cru­cial to find inno­v­a­tive solu­tions to reduce ener­gy con­sump­tion and min­i­mize our car­bon foot­print. One such solu­tion is found in capac­i­tors. These unas­sum­ing elec­tron­ic com­po­nents not only play an impor­tant role in var­i­ous sys­tems, but also offer sig­nif­i­cant envi­ron­men­tal ben­e­fits. Albeit very small – if count­ed one by one.

The last crusade for 0.1 mg iridium

The last crusade for 0.1 mg iridium

Jan­u­ary 16, 2025

In the race to make green hydro­gen eco­nom­i­cal­ly viable, researchers world­wide are pur­su­ing the seem­ing­ly impos­si­ble: reduc­ing irid­i­um use in PEM elec­trolyz­ers by 95%. As Smoltek gets clos­er to this holy grail of 0.1 mg/​cm², we exam­ine how oth­er tech­nolo­gies mea­sure up.

Unlocking the green hydrogen economy

Unlocking the green hydrogen economy

Jan­u­ary 15, 2025

When experts talk about the ener­gy sys­tems of the future, they often come back to one spe­cif­ic num­ber: 0.1 mil­ligrams per square cen­time­ter (0.1 mg/​cm²). This seem­ing­ly insignif­i­cant num­ber could be crit­i­cal to mov­ing green hydro­gen from a promis­ing con­cept to an eco­nom­ic reality.

Deep Trench Capacitors (DTC) is a dead end – CNF-MIM is the way forward

Deep Trench Capacitors (DTC) is a dead end – CNF-MIM is the way forward

Jan­u­ary 9, 2025

Mod­ern elec­tron­ics demand increas­ing­ly com­pact and pow­er­ful capac­i­tors, and the race for minia­tur­iza­tion has reached a crit­i­cal junc­ture. While both Deep Trench Capac­i­tors (DTC) and Car­bon Nanofiber Met­al-Insu­la­tor-Met­al (CNF-MIM) capac­i­tors are being devel­oped for advanced appli­ca­tions requir­ing small­er size and high­er capac­i­tance den­si­ty than con­ven­tion­al sur­face-mount­ed capac­i­tors, DTC push­es the bound­aries of what’s achiev­able with sub­trac­tive man­u­fac­tur­ing, but is hit­ting fun­da­men­tal phys­i­cal lim­its. In con­trast, Smoltek’s inno­v­a­tive CNF-MIM tech­nol­o­gy offers a rev­o­lu­tion­ary path for­ward, unre­strict­ed by these constraints.

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