Breakthrough Products
Energy Storage
For decades, whether the source was battery powered, steam driven, energized by nuclear fusion or water turning a paddle, the chase has been on to discover the ultimate energy storage medium. Energy Density and Power Density must be paired. Hundreds of billions of dollars later, no company has come close to capturing the proverbial genie in a bottle. Until Now.
Capacitors
What began as a project seeking to speed up an antiquated national rail system led us down a path with far broader implications. Implications across virtually every industrial sector in electronics from radar to radios to cellphones to electrification of all facets of transportation. A new category of game changing capacitors have been developed by the team at Great Ball of Light, Inc.
Manufacturing
GBL’s unique dielectric materials are developed and built with our companion deposition processes. These provide unprecedented speed, yield and manufacturing economies that make our dielectics game changers in the marketplace.
The Time is Now
New applications are dependent on much faster cycle times.
GBL speeds up the application clock on the order of 100,000 times for storage.
GBL speeds up the application clock, 1/f, for power and mixed signal capacitors on the order of 10 to 1,000 times.
Energy Storage
The future will require a new path to energy storage. Mobility of the future requires power densities unachievable with chemical storage. GBL’s high energy density, extreme power density electrostatic capacitors provide an entirely new path in mobility.
The Ragone Chart tells the story loud and clear. GBL’s storage technology is the path to the future. Ultra fast, ultra efficient and unlimited charge cycling.
Energy Storage and Power Capacitor Technology
The applications below are indicative of the performance advantages which will support a lucrative and highly competitive pricing strategy for GBL commercial and consumer oriented products.
Motive
Dense energy storage is fundamental to e-mobility, driver automation, and other motive advancements. High Energy density and near instantaneous charge removes primary limitations of BEV while dramatically lowering cost through fractional installed energy, unlimited life and near 100 percent operational availability.
Grid Power
GBL dielectrics will reduce the cost of short to medium term (MW rated) energy storage by whole number factors. High power density increases power rating per kW-h over battery storage by an order of magnitude while decreasing cost per KW-h for long term storage by factor >3 over 30 year life and with no State Of Charge (SOC) restrictions. High density capacitors make micro burst transmission and control feasible. Grid-to-motive will be economically feasible with GBL energy storage.
Space
High specific density and power density provide cost, size and weight reductions for power conversion, pulse power and Solid State Amplifiers. The absence of SOC restrictions expands eclipse operation for a given installed energy. Reduced temperature dependence lessens impact on thermal design considerations.
Fusion Reactors
Proposed fusion reactors require the power equivalent of a small city to start. Our high power density for storage uniquely supports efficient inertial containment strategies for fusion reactors, pulsed energy strategies and economical reactor starts.
Power and Small Signal Capacitor Technology
The applications below are indicative of the performance advantages which will also support a lucrative and highly competitive pricing strategy.
Precision Electronics
High Speed Electronics - GBL’s Thin Film Capacitor technology is a drop-in replacement, today, for industry standard Tantalum capacitors without the necessity for using rare earth materials.
5G - These devices are fundamental to autonomous driving, the Internet of Things and other advancements. Our tunable and high density, temperature tolerant, thin film capacitors can significantly reduce the size and cost, while increasing the reliability of power conversion and air interface components within 5G devices.
Space
The rapid growth of large constellation small satellites is dependent on cost effective, High Reliability components. Radiation and heat tolerance are strong requirements for space component viability. Our thin film capacitors will provide significantly better radiation tolerance along with size and cost reductions for power conversion, pulse power, and SSAs. GBL capacitors will also enable alternative thermal designs, charging methodologies and eclipse operations for a given installed energy.
AI, Power and Manufacturing
Artificial Intelligence will accelerate the advancement of manufacturing, energy efficiency and product development among other things. Our miniaturized, temperature tolerant, thin film capacitors will significantly reduce the cost and size of servos, PC electronics as well as energy containment for small signal components.
Quantum Computing
In order to measure and perform quantum algorithms on qbits, quantum computers require strong charge confinement and precision transport. Our thin film capacitors will be an enabler for the analog control circuits that will be required to perform operations with qbits.
Manufacturing
GBLs companion manufacturing technologies provide unique capabilities that allow rapid scaling and economical production.
GBL principal scientists have over 35 years of developmental and operational expertise in Plasma and Vacuum technology, and have been granted numerous patents.
The process used for our research and prototyping is highly scalable. GBL has identified rapid automated testing methodologies to support high rate production and device integration.
Our deposition technology goes beyond other deposition processes to address unique speed, accuracy and defect issues associated with current State Of The Art technologies. Mega-factory economics will be demonstrable at fractional size and cost scale.
