For decades, Comet vacuum capacitors were mainly used for broadcast applications. That changed when Comet entered the semiconductor market in the late 1990s with its fixed Mini-Cap capacitors. It wasn’t long before the designers of impedance matching networks were requesting more and more often also variable vacuum capacitors that could be intentionally and repeatedly changed.

The existing variable Basic-Con product series fulfilled some of these requirements. When Comet engineers improved the design with a better connection concept and a more durable progressive bellows for prolonged life, the Uni-Con product family was born. To this day, variable capacitors from the Uni-Con series are the products most often built into matchboxes.

As the name suggests, Uni-Con is a universal solution for many semiconductor applications. Over the years, we’ve developed additional products to meet the needs of the increasingly complex semiconductor manufacturing process:

We pride ourselves on understanding and meeting customer needs. Supporting match designers with the right components to manufacture the latest generation of semiconductors has always been an important goal. The rising complexity of our customers’ requests continually drives our vacuum capacitor product range to the next level.

Vacuum capacitors solve one universal problem: storing electrical charges. The interesting challenge for our experienced engineers is adapting material and manufacturing processes in new and innovative ways within the limits of fixed physical laws and so enable new developments.

Successful Comet concepts and products, such as those we’ve discussed above, wouldn’t be possible without direct, deep collaboration with customers. Our engineers co-create directly with customer engineers and capture needs one-on-one, whether they relate to the planned plasma process or the matchbox hardware that defines the space for vacuum capacitors. We always welcome this collaboration and look forward to solving new challenges together with our customers.