Enerchip - The Solid State Battery

[kcarring]

Cymbet EnerChip™ thin film rechargeable solid-state smart batteries (SSB) are an innovation in energy storage and power management. Packaged as a Surface Mount Technology (SMT) component, the EnerChip provides energy storage in a form factor and with a convenience not previously attainable using conventional solutions such as lithium coin cells or super capacitors. Cymbet's EnerChip SSBs are well suited for applications where battery backup power is needed to maintain the settings of microcontroller memories, real-time-clocks and SRAM during power loss or power failures. EnerChip devices can provide back-up power ranging from a few hours to several weeks depending on the stand-by current requirements of the system. Rechargeable EnerChips are ideal storage device for Energy Harvesting-powered microelectronic systems.

EnerChip Solid State Battery Overview | Thin Film Energy Storage, Thin Film Batteries | Cymbet Corporation

• EnerChips are more than 10x smaller than nonrechargeable coin cell batteries
• EnerChips last 3x longer than conventional coin cell batteries
• EnerChips are less expensive to use than conventional coin cell batteries or super caps

EnerChip smart solid state batteries are very cost effective and are priced as low as $0.20 for CBC005 bare die or $0.50 for CBC3105 packaged parts in high volumes.

[Slider2732]

Are these similar to Polyacene ?
I've just bought 10 of those from Electronic Goldmine, for $2.00
Polyacene Batteries-The Electronic Goldmine
0.6 Farad, thinner than 'hearing aid' batteries.
They have tabs already soldered on them and are supposed to be surface mounted to circuits.

I found one in a cellphone and anyone with a junker cellphone may well find one inside. The cellphone one was about 1/4 the size of the ones I just received and charges quickly to about 1.6V. No idea what the storage rating is on it, but would imagine 0.15uF but I haven't done much with it yet.
They are super light too...my thought was to cobble a few together for a free flight aircraft model.

[kcarring]

Hey Slider. I'm not sure, but I think what you are talking about is more of a capacitor? This is the first solid state battery I have ever heard of, but apparently there are more than one outfit working on this technology. I believe these ones had a life of at least 5000 cycles or more, so below capacitor, but above typical battery.

At 20c a piece, they are nice choice for remote logic.

[boguslaw]

how about replacing such battery with ordinary electrolytic impulse capacitor with some coil and electronics. Charge it and it keeps charged forever even under load. is that possible ?
with small electronic switches I saw it can be really small and kicking
kick kick kicking like Steven Mark said

I'm wondering if actually it's not what they do to produce that battery..... rolf