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CAP-XX Wins Award for Prismatic Supercapacitors
February 8, 2006 |Estimated reading time: 1 minute
SYDNEY, Australia — CAP-XX Inc. has received Frost & Sullivan's 2005 Technology Innovation of the Year Award in nanotechnology-enabled supercapacitors for research that led to a breakthrough nanotechnology process for producing thin and flat, or prismatic, supercapacitors to meet the pulse-power requirements of portable devices. This award goes to a company whose research is expected to bring significant contributions to the industry in terms of adoption, change, and competitive posture.
Supercapacitor technology can help bridge the gap between capacitors and batteries, delivering high power bursts and storing more energy than capacitors. For example, supercapacitors provide the high power bursts required when taking a digital photo or sending wireless cell phone transmissions, without draining the battery. Frost & Sullivan recognizes CAP-XX's research in developing supercapacitors compact enough for increasingly smaller consumer electronics.
"CAP-XX has applied nanotechnology solutions and processes in its designs to produce carbon electrodes smaller than a postage stamp, but with a surface area of hundreds of square meters," notes Viswanathan Krishnan, a Frost & Sullivan research analyst. "The result is high energy and power densities in the smallest packages." The company leveraged expertise in carbon chemistry from its strategic partner CSIRO, an Australia-based research organization, to help achieve this result.
CAP-XX prismatic supercapacitors feature a small footprint of either 28 × 17 mm or 39 × 17 mm, and a thin profile of 1–3 mm. They allow designers to produce thinner, longer-running devices with functions that were previously impossible, such as LED flash camera phones that produce clear pictures even in low light.
"CAP-XX's technology targets high growth applications such as smart phones, camera phones, GPRS/EDGE/3G devices, PCMCIA and Compact Flash cards, ruggedized PDAs, digital still cameras, automated meter reading, MP3 players, wireless sensor networks, location tracking and medical devices," continues Krishnan. "It can also play a role in meeting the peak power demands in renewable energy sources such as fuel cells and solar power devices."