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Helplayer IP-family expands with new granted patent

The constantly expanding Smoltek IP-portfolio is divided into several different patent families. One of them is named Helplayer, a method to protect the underlaying materials when growing nanostructures on a given surface. To this family we can add another patent number recently granted.

September 14, 2020

This, our 61st pat­ent, is gran­ted in India which is a fast-grow­ing mar­ket with­in the semi­con­duct­or industry. The pat­ent belongs to the Hel­play­er fam­ily – one of our hard­core tech­no­logy and concept fam­il­ies. The Hel­play­er tech­no­logy essen­tially is a meth­od to pro­tect the under­lay­ing sub­strate or mater­i­als from being dam­aged dur­ing the nano­struc­ture growth process.

India is a fast-grow­ing semi­con­duct­or mar­ket in the field of con­sumer elec­tron­ics. Fur­ther­more, India is emer­ging as a new import­ant semi­con­duct­or fab source in Asia. Hence it becomes a stra­tegic choice to have a core IP foot­print also in India.”, says Dr Shafiq Kabir, Founder and Chief Innov­a­tion Officer at Smoltek.

Smoltek’s pat­ent port­fo­lio has today developed into sev­er­al pat­ent fam­il­ies, start­ing from fun­da­ment­al tech­no­logy that enables con­trolled growth of nano­struc­tures. Since then, the port­fo­lio has fur­ther expan­ded into the domain of devices/​components based on, or enabled by, nanostructures.

Dur­ing the ini­tial phase of Smoltek’s devel­op­ment of intel­lec­tu­al prop­erty, the first set of pat­ent fam­il­ies was designed to pro­tect essen­tial industry-com­pat­ible pro­cesses. One of these early fam­il­ies is a meth­od pat­ent fam­ily named Helplayer.

The Hel­play­er pat­ent fam­ily offers a meth­od to pro­tect the under­ly­ing sub­strate and mater­i­als when grow­ing nano­struc­tured mater­i­al on the sur­face. Sub­sequently, after­wards the hel­play­er can be removed from the unwanted areas in a con­trolled way without dam­aging under­lay­ing mater­i­als, or cir­cuits (i.e. tran­sist­ors). This meth­od, for example, provides the pos­sib­il­ity to man­u­fac­ture smal­ler and thin­ner high-per­form­ance capa­cit­ors not only as dis­crete capa­cit­or com­pon­ents but also as integ­rated capa­cit­ors at wafer fab pro­duc­tion of for example micro­pro­cessors, smart inter­posers or chiplets.

Smoltek’s pat­ent port­fo­lio now glob­ally com­prises 61 gran­ted pat­ents. Read more about our IP and pat­ents.

Image: Shafiq Kabir, CIO at Smoltek

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