Smoltek demonstrates the thinnest capacitor in the world

Smol­tek can today show a capa­cit­or pro­to­type that is only a few micro­met­ers high and togeth­er with the neces­sary sub­strate (com­pon­ent car­ri­er) barely reaches 40 micro­met­ers in total height. This at the same time as one can show a capa­cit­ance dens­ity of 500nF/​mm2 (nan­o­farad per square mil­li­meter), an equi­val­ent series res­ist­ance below 10 mΩ (mil­liohm) and an intern­al induct­ance below 15 pH (pico­henry).

“We have always known that our capa­cit­or tech­no­logy enables extremely thin capa­cit­or com­pon­ents, but see­ing is believ­ing. Being able to show this high-per­form­ance pro­to­type helps a lot in our work in selling the tech­no­logy,” says Ola Tiver­man, Pres­id­ent of Smol­tek Semi.

The need for thin­ner high-per­form­ance capa­cit­ors for advanced semi­con­duct­or integ­ra­tion will con­tin­ue to grow with new gen­er­a­tions of pro­cessors, not least for 5G applications.

“Such a thin capa­cit­or proof-of concept that at the same time shows excel­lent per­form­ance is a res­ult of Smoltek’s own R&D efforts. This also demon­strates the scalab­il­ity of our CNF-MIM tech­no­logy and the applic­ab­il­ity of the tech­no­logy for use in cut­ting-edge applic­a­tions. And not least, the unique advant­age that CNF-MIM provides com­pared to com­pet­ing tech­no­logy by meet­ing the need for increas­ingly thin­ner capa­cit­ors with high per­form­ance even in the longer term,” says Vin­cent Des­mar­is, Chief Tech­no­logy Officer at Smoltek.

Based in Gothen­burg – Chal­len­ging the glob­al semi­con­duct­or industry

Smol­tek, in Gothen­burg, Sweden, has since the start developed a num­ber of applic­a­tion con­cepts, based on the company’s unique and pat­ent-pro­tec­ted car­bon nan­o­tech­no­logy plat­form, aimed towards the glob­al semi­con­duct­or industry.

Since 2017, when the industry first began to show a clear interest in Smoltek’s capa­cit­or tech­no­logy in par­tic­u­lar, the company’s tech­no­logy devel­op­ment has been dir­ec­ted with the aim of mak­ing these micro­scop­ic­ally small capa­cit­ors even smal­ler, while main­tain­ing per­form­ance with­in import­ant para­met­ers; such as high capa­cit­ance dens­ity, low leak­age cur­rent, low equi­val­ent series res­ist­ance and low inductance.

With this demon­stra­tion of the oppor­tun­it­ies with Smoltek’s CNF-MIM tech­no­logy, the com­pany chal­lenges the major play­ers in the semi­con­duct­or industry about who has the tech­no­logy to man­u­fac­ture the thin­nest capa­cit­ors in a com­par­able per­form­ance segment.

Link to press release on Cision News