Smoltek has placed an order on an industrial carbon growth machine

The car­bon growth machine, which will be installed at a semi­con­duct­or foundry, con­sti­tutes a cent­ral part of the pro­duc­tion pro­cess that Smol­tek is now estab­lish­ing to be able to man­u­fac­ture the company’s ultra-thin capa­cit­ors. By order­ing this indus­tri­al car­bon growth machine – that is in line with the unique spe­cific­a­tions based on Smol­tek’s pat­ent pro­tec­ted man­u­fac­tur­ing pro­cess for growth of car­bon nan­ofibers with very high pre­ci­sion – anoth­er import­ant step has been taken in the work of cre­at­ing a pro­duc­tion pro­cess to be able to man­u­fac­ture ultra-thin CNF-MIM capa­cit­ors in very high volumes. The machine will be installed and qual­i­fied for mass pro­duc­tion at a semi­con­duct­or foundry.

“It is inspir­ing that the work with estab­lish­ing a pro­duc­tion pro­cess for the man­u­fac­tur­ing of our ultra-thin capa­cit­ors is pro­ceed­ing in a sat­is­fact­ory man­ner. We are cur­rently in the design phase of the pro­ject, which is pro­ject phase three of five, where the final phase defines the final­ized pro­duc­tion pro­cess before pro­duc­tion can begin,”

says Karl Lundahl, VP Indus­tri­al­iz­a­tion and Product Man­age­ment, Smol­tek Semi.

In par­al­lel with the indus­tri­al­iz­a­tion of the CNF-MIM tech­no­logy, Smol­tek Semi is also work­ing on the devel­op­ment of the first product, which the com­pany believes will be the world’s thin­nest decoup­ling capa­cit­or for applic­a­tion pro­cessors for mobile phones.

Smol­tek Semi’s ambi­tion over time is also to expand and broaden the product fam­ily of CNF-MIM based capa­cit­ors. Primary applic­a­tions can be found in for example wear­ables, high per­form­ance com­put­ing (HPC) and 5G.

“An import­ant aspect of the pro­duc­tion pro­cess and sup­ply chain that is now being developed by Smol­tek Semi, is that it has a high degree of tech­nic­al flex­ib­il­ity in com­bin­a­tion with a scalab­il­ity for man­u­fac­tur­ing in extremely high volumes. The pro­duc­tion pro­cess, includ­ing the car­bon growth machine which we are now order­ing, will there­fore over time be able to be used for man­u­fac­tur­ing of sev­er­al dif­fer­ent capa­cit­or types based on Smoltek’s pat­ent pro­tec­ted CNF-MIM technology,”

says Ola Tiver­man, Pres­id­ent of Smol­tek Semi.

Smol­tek con­ducts busi­ness oper­a­tions with­in devel­op­ment, indus­tri­al­iz­a­tion and licens­ing of tech­no­logy solu­tions, based on the com­pany’s pat­ent pro­tec­ted car­bon nan­ofiber tech­no­logy. The company’s tech­no­logy solu­tions for the Semi­con­duct­ors busi­ness area are developed by the Group com­pany Smol­tek Semi. The focus is on indus­tri­al­iz­ing and com­mer­cial­iz­ing the com­pany’s ultra-thin CNF-MIM capacitors.