Methods for manufacture a capacitor with three-dimensional high surface area electrodes

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 8561271
APP PUB NO 20110310528A1
SERIAL NO

12969186

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A method for making a capacitor having improved capacitance efficiency which results from increasing the effective area of an electrode surface is disclosed. Specifically, an improved “three-dimensional” capacitor may be constructed with electrode layers having three-dimensional aspects at the point of interface with a dielectric such that portions of the electrode extend into the dielectric layer. Advantageously, embodiments of a three-dimensional capacitor drastically reduce the space footprint that is required in a circuit to accommodate the capacitor, when compared to current capacitor designs. Increased capacitance density may be realized without using high k (high constant) dielectric materials, additional “electrode-dielectric-electrode” arrangements in an ever increasing stack, or serially stringing together multiple capacitors.

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  • APRICOT MATERIALS TECHNOLOGIES, LLC

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Chai, Liang Stuart, US 16 56
Rae, Alan Wilson, US 17 140
Wison, James M North Adams, US 1 2

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