Smoltek patent No. 69 now granted

Smoltek’s pat­ent pro­tec­ted con­cepts around inter­posers are built on the need to improve cir­cuit per­form­ance by enabling smarter, com­pact energy stor­age devices which in turn can enable more effi­cient power man­age­ment solutions.

This par­tic­u­lar pat­ent belongs to our pat­ent fam­ily that cov­ers the company’s CNF-MIM capa­cit­or tech­no­logy and vari­ous use cases for the same, primar­ily in the field of inter­posers for advanced pack­aging and het­ero­gen­ous integ­ra­tion of semiconductors.

The inven­tion as such facil­it­ates integ­ra­tion of extremely thin sol­id-state devices, such as CNF-MIM capa­cit­ors, where the main advant­age is that the energy stor­ing devices can be placed closer to the inter­con­nec­tion points and power rails of the act­ive chip, thus enabling more effi­cient power man­age­ment solu­tions for the whole circuit.

Mini­atur­ized or com­pact energy stor­age devices e.g. capa­cit­ors are in high demand in the field of today’s advanced pack­aging archi­tec­tures for integ­rated cir­cuits, for example com­monly used for micro­pro­cessors and oth­er het­ero­gen­eously integ­rated semiconductors.

Smoltek’s pat­ent port­fo­lio now glob­ally com­prises 69 gran­ted pat­ents. Read more about our IP and patents.

Image: Smol­tek R&D engin­eers at Chalmers MC2 laboratory