Interposer

The Inter­pos­er fam­i­ly is cov­er­ing Smoltek’s CNF-MIM capac­i­tors tech­nol­o­gy and var­i­ous use cas­es for the same, pri­mar­i­ly in the field of inter­posers for advanced pack­ag­ing and het­eroge­nous inte­gra­tion of semiconductors. 

The inven­tion: An inter­pos­er device com­pris­ing an inter­pos­er sub­strate; a plu­ral­i­ty of con­duct­ing vias extend­ing through the inter­pos­er sub­strate; a con­duc­tor pat­tern on the inter­pos­er sub­strate, and a nanos­truc­ture ener­gy stor­age device. The nanos­truc­ture ener­gy stor­age device com­pris­es at least a first plu­ral­i­ty of con­duc­tive nanos­truc­tures formed on the inter­pos­er sub­strate; a con­duc­tion con­trol­ling mate­r­i­al embed­ding each nanos­truc­ture in the first plu­ral­i­ty of con­duc­tive nanos­truc­tures; a first elec­trode con­nect­ed to each nanos­truc­ture in the first plu­ral­i­ty of nanos­truc­tures; and a sec­ond elec­trode sep­a­rat­ed from each nanos­truc­ture in the first plu­ral­i­ty of nanos­truc­tures by the con­duc­tion con­trol­ling mate­r­i­al, where­in the first elec­trode and the sec­ond elec­trode are con­fig­ured to allow elec­tri­cal con­nec­tion of the nanos­truc­ture ener­gy stor­age device to the inte­grat­ed circuit.

Granted patents relating to the innovation

Patent OfficePatent
Chi­naCN108701672
South KoreaKR102085789
Tai­wanTWI710082
USAUS10438880
USAUS10741485
Japan7007285
Tai­wanI757931
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