New advances in the lab put Smoltek in an attractive market position

This is an import­ant step towards licens­ing the tech­no­logy concept to cus­tom­ers in the semi­con­duct­or and elec­tron­ics indus­tries. And it will put Smol­tek in an attract­ive mar­ket position. 

Smol­tek presents new meas­ure­ments from the nan­o­tech­no­logy research con­duc­ted by the com­pany at Chalmers Uni­ver­sity of Technology’s MC2 labor­at­ory, in Gothenburg.

Smol­tek can now demon­strate a num­ber of capa­cit­or pro­to­types, based on car­bon nan­ofibers with a capa­cit­ance dens­ity of 200nF (nan­o­Farad) per square mil­li­meter. The value is two and a half times great­er than the pre­vi­ously veri­fied num­ber, which the com­pany presen­ted as recently as in May this year, and has been achieved with short nano­struc­tures, which gives a very low over­all pro­file height, an integ­ra­tion­al advantage.

Smol­tek can also con­firm low intern­al res­ist­ance (ESR), an import­ant para­met­er for prac­tic­al use of the concept. The com­pany has already demon­strated that the tech­no­logy meets required break-down voltage for the actu­al applic­a­tion areas of interest.

“This is a very import­ant step for Smol­tek, as it increases the attract­ive­ness of our tech­no­logy in the cus­tom­er dia­logues in pro­gress,” says Anders Johans­son, CEO of Smol­tek Nan­otech Hold­ing AB. He fur­ther states that there are still optim­iz­a­tion oppor­tun­it­ies in the concept for the future.

“The new meas­ure­ment res­ults con­firm Smoltek’s lead­ing pos­i­tion in innov­at­ive tech­no­logy for integ­rated pass­ive ele­ments. They again show that our capa­cit­or tech­no­logy is highly rel­ev­ant to meet­ing the chal­lenges of future integ­rated cir­cuits – high­er per­form­ance on smal­ler sur­faces”, says CTO Pro­fess­or Vin­cent Desmaris.

To sum­mar­ize: Simply expressed, the capa­cit­ance dens­ity refers to how many elec­trons can be stored per sur­face unit. That a high­er value is meas­ured means that the desired per­form­ance of a capa­cit­or can be achieved on a smal­ler surface.