Alumni Profile
SAFI-Tech, Inc.: Supercooled Soldering for Next-Generation Electronic Devices
No-Heat SAC305: enabling the future of electronics
The electronics manufacturing world has long desired a low heat processing solution for soldering. Advanced electronics designs with lightweight flexible substrates and sensitive miniaturized components require a dramatic reduction in processing heat while still maintaining high operating temperature requirements. SAFI-Tech’s patented platform allows SAC305, the industry standard high temperature alloy, and many other alloys to be processed at temperatures as low as ambient opening the door to the future of electronics.
SAFI-Tech has created a patented platform technology that creates microparticles of liquid metal with a thin oxide shell. The liquid metal in these microcapsules can be kept in a liquid state far below the normal freezing point of metal. When the shell is dissolved or broken, the liquid in these microcapsules is released, creating metallic connections and traces as low as room temperature.
SAFI-Tech’s supercooled platform was invented by co-founders Dr. Ian Tevis and Dr. Martin Thuo at Iowa State University.
UN Sustainable Development Goals
Larta Programs
- Commercialization Assistance Program (CAP) – for DOE SBIR Phase I Grant Awardees
- Commercialization Assistance Program (CAP) – for DOE SBIR Phase II Grant Awardees
Larta Products
- Commercialization Plan
- Phase I Grant Application Assistance
- Go-To-Market Strategy
- Marketing & Sales Strategy
- Pricing Strategy
- Business & Financial Model
- Fundraising Strategies
Founders
Dr. Ian Tevis
CTO and President
Safi-Tech
Dr. Martin Thuo
CSO
Safi-Tech
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Larta was instrumental in helping us to navigate the SBIR application process. With their help, we were able to secure SBIR awards that directly funded our product development.
Dr. Ian Tevis
Co-Found, CTO, and President
Alumni News
July 13, 2022
Indium Corporation Announces Partnership with SAFI-Tech New Solder Products Development
Indium Corporation®, a leader in supplying products to global electronics, semiconductor, thin-film, and thermal management markets, is partnering with SAFI-Tech, an Iowa-based startup that is creating no-heat and low-heat solder and metallic joining products.
June 9, 2022
SAFI-Tech New Supercooled Soldering Technology
Soldering technology is thousands of years old, but is still an essential component in electronics assembly, without which none of our advanced electronic devices would function.
November 21, 2021
Chemistry start-ups on our radar in 2021: These 5 young chemistry-based firms could soon be improving the world
Safi-Tech encapsulates solders for next-generation electronics
