Smoltek has been granted two new patents – strengthening the Discrete CNF-MIM patent family

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.