Smoltek patent No. 60 now granted

The new US pat­ent pro­tects com­pact energy stor­age devices based on our CNF-MIM capa­cit­or con­cepts. In this par­tic­u­lar pat­ent, claims cov­er device struc­tures which may be on a sub­strate, or on an inter­poser, or con­nec­ted to an integ­rated cir­cuit. One aspect of the pat­ent also cov­ers the applic­a­tion of energy stor­age device where it is con­nec­ted to an integ­rated cir­cuit and/​or a bat­tery like energy source.

‘’We are delighted by the fact that our energy stor­age related pat­ent plat­form is grow­ing into an even big­ger foot­print. This new pat­ent fur­ther enhances our IP stand­point and strengthens our pos­i­tion as an innov­at­ive tech­no­logy lead­er.”, says Dr Shafiq Kabir, Founder and Chief Innov­a­tion Officer at Smoltek.

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. The present pat­en­ted con­cepts 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.

Smoltek’s inven­tions facil­it­ate integ­ra­tion of extremely thin sol­id-state energy stor­age devices, such as CNF-MIM capa­cit­ors, closer to the inter­con­nec­tion points and power rails of the act­ive chips. The CNF-MIM tech­no­logy offers industry’s smal­lest form­factor for integ­rated high-per­form­ance capa­cit­ors, this by provid­ing very high capa­cit­ance per area at a frag­ment of height com­pared to today’s technologies.

Smoltek’s pat­ent port­fo­lio now glob­ally com­prises 60 gran­ted pat­ents. Read more about our IP and pat­ents.

Image: Shafiq Kabir, CIO at Smoltek