Cap-XX, the supercapacitor manufacturer, is looking to get into the volume mobile phone market and expects a first major deal in 2007.
Based in Australia, with subcontracted manufacturing in Malaysia and floated on AIM in London last week, the company is already talking to the major mobile phone manufacturers worldwide, according to CEO Anthony Kongats.
“We want to be a significant player in the design of mobile phones… Supercapacitors can extend the run time of the phone and allow features that aren’t currently possible,” he added.
The supercapacitor in a mobile can very quickly provide short bursts of power and then recharge from the battery in milliseconds. For example, said Kongats, it could be used in a phone that is using time division multiplexing and allow class 12 GPRS that is transmitting 50 per cent of the time.
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Anthony Kongats
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Outlining other possible uses of the supercapacitor in an mobile, Kongats said: "If you put a hard drive in a phone - and if you have more than 4Gbytes it makes sense to do so - you need a sudden boost of power to quickly access the hard drive.
"With audio the lower frequency notes need higher power. For a flash with 15lux you can't get the power from a phone to do it, or it would shut the phone down."
The company, which raised around £17m with its flotation on the Alternative Investment Market of the London Stock Exchange, is also looking at other mobile device markets, such as drug dispensing, medical diagnostic devices and MP3 players.
The bulk of its current sales go into wireless modems for laptops.
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