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Smoltek’s 59th patent now granted

Smoltek is awarded yet another approved patent, the fourth this year. The patent is also the third in a patent family protecting solutions for interposers based on the CNF-MIM capacitor concept. This means that our patent portfolio now comprises 59 granted patents.

May 19, 2020

The pat­ent cov­ers our 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. 

“It is very reward­ing that the ded­ic­ated efforts to gen­er­ate a new wave of inven­tions now starts to pay off. This pat­ent is a recog­ni­tion of that our tech­no­lo­gic­al approaches and con­cepts are cut­ting edge and innov­at­ive”, says Dr Shafiq Kabir, Founder and Chief Innov­a­tion Officer at Smoltek.

Inter­posers are fre­quently used in today’s advanced pack­aging archi­tec­tures for integ­rated cir­cuits, for example com­monly used for micro­pro­cessors and het­ero­gen­eous integ­ra­tions. The present pat­en­ted con­cepts are built on the need to improve cir­cuit per­form­ance by enabling smarter inter­posers that integ­rates one or sev­er­al com­pact energy stor­age devices.

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 with today’s technologies. 

Dr Shafiq Kabir con­cludes: “South Korea is an import­ant mar­ket for our tech­no­logy, hence it is of high import­ance to have a foot­print with our new set of IP in such mar­ket. This goes in line with our con­stant strive for sol­id IP pro­tec­tion of our R&D schemes that bring new dis­rupt­ive solu­tions to prob­lems that tra­di­tion­al tech­no­lo­gies can­not effi­ciently address.”

 

Smoltek’s pat­ent port­fo­lio now glob­ally com­prises 59 gran­ted pat­ents. Read more about our IP and patents.

Image: Smol­tek R&D engin­eers in the Chalmers MC2 lab

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