About Us
Silicon Expertise
Silicon Contact Ltd is a fabless semiconductor design company formed in 2013 to exploit and license the core I-MODE technology invented by its founder John Wood, an experienced entrepreneur and expert on high-frequency electromagnetic within CMOS integrated circuits.
Intellectual Property
John has over 30 granted patents in fields of Oscillators, Control Systems, Infrared Welding and Digital Signalling Transmission,
and Bipolar power transistor and Driver technology. Today, John’s patented Rotary Travelling Wave Oscillator is widely used in mobile phones, internet
routers and re-timing circuits. Licensees of his technology include companies in the USA and China.
Third Generation Bipolar Technology: Driving the electric revolution
Awarded the July 2022 Innovate UK SMART Grant: Our low cost, Silicon-based power transistors achieve 99% efficiency and are widely applicable across the PEMD sector.
Adoption of our technology in heat pumps, industrial drives, electric vehicles and rail electrification will greatly reduce electricity usage and greenhouse gas emissions, making a significant contribution to the UK's net zero ambitions.
Advanced Packaging
At high frequencies and high currents, the limitations of conventional
IC packaging such as wire and ribbon bonding are bottlenecks to achieving
performance, cost and size targets.
Silicon Contact is working in partnership with other companies
to develop novel, low cost all-copper direct die-to-die IC interconnect using nano copper bump printing inks.