The two new­ly approved patents are the sec­ond and third in the Dis­crete CNF-MIM patent fam­i­ly. This par­tic­u­lar inno­va­tion makes full use of and derive the ben­e­fit from the extra-ordi­nary sur­face to vol­ume ratio pro­vid­ed by car­bon nanofibers to cre­ate a MIM capac­i­tor with unpar­al­leled high capac­i­tance density.

The Dis­crete CNF-MIM patent fam­i­ly cov­ers the field of dis­crete capac­i­tors – a field that we have been heav­i­ly invest­ing in terms of R&D and inno­va­tion resources.

Farzan Gha­vani­ni, CTO at Smoltek.

The patent dis­clos­es a dis­crete met­al-insu­la­tor-met­al (MIM) capac­i­tor com­po­nent based on the pro­pri­etary car­bon nanofiber tech­nol­o­gy devel­oped at Smoltek. It also describes the struc­ture of such capac­i­tor and the relat­ed micro­fab­ri­ca­tion process­es to real­ize it.

This patent grant fur­ther strength­ens our IP port­fo­lio in a field that the semi­con­duc­tor indus­try is heav­i­ly invest­ing in, name­ly advanced capac­i­tor tech­nol­o­gy. Our invest­ment in this is dri­ven by the demands of new­er inte­grat­ed cir­cuits tar­get­ing advanced appli­ca­tion areas such as AI. It is reward­ing to wit­ness that our R&D efforts as reflect­ed in our expand­ing IP port­fo­lio aligns well with the needs of the indus­try and that our dis­rup­tive tech­nol­o­gy can solve prob­lems that tra­di­tion­al tech­nolo­gies cannot.

Farzan Gha­vani­ni

The Dis­crete CNF-MIM patent fam­i­ly dis­clos­es a high-den­si­ty dis­crete capac­i­tor based on Smoltek’s car­bon nanofiber tech­nol­o­gy paving the way for ultra-thin capac­i­tors that can be placed adja­cent to the com­po­nents they are sup­posed to sup­port. The patent fam­i­ly enables the sys­tem design­ers to bring for­ward inte­gra­tion and pack­ag­ing schemes with supe­ri­or per­for­mance with very small foot­print. These new schemes are vital in devel­op­ing new prod­ucts in the field of IoT, wear­ables, high-per­for­mance com­put­ing (HPC), Arti­fi­cial intel­li­gence (AI), and similar.

Smoltek’s patent port­fo­lio now glob­al­ly com­pris­es 89 grant­ed patents. Read more about our IP and patents.