Enerchip - The Solid State Battery

[kcarring]

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