PrimeSwitch™
The first micro-machine out of the Matter Compiler.
PrimeSwitch is a new class of electromechanical relay.
Invented by Atomic Machines, buildable only in the Matter Compiler.
Every switching technology has forced the same trade.
Electromechanical relays conduct metal-to-metal — the most efficient path there is — but open in milliseconds. Solid-state switches open in microseconds — but conduct through semiconductors, with the losses and heat that come with them.
Pick your poison:
PrimeSwitch is the first device that refuses the trade: 200 µΩ metallic conduction and 50 µs opening — with true galvanic isolation at 1500 volts, bistable operation that holds state on zero power, surface-mount.
Switching technologies by on-resistance and opening time
empty for a century
Fast — Microseconds but lossy, hot conduction
Efficient — Metal-to-metal efficiency but milliseconds
Fast AND Efficient — Empty for a century
The speed comes from the scale.
A contact with almost no mass, traveling microns, can open in microseconds — physics no hand-sized mechanism can reach. PrimeSwitch isn’t a relay made small. It’s a relay made fast — because it’s small.
PrimeSwitch specifications
- Continuous current
- 150 AmpsAC or DCNo active cooling needed
- Opening time
- 50 µs to 1500 VTrue galvanic isolation
- On-resistance
- 200 µΩ
- Dimensions
- 9.5 mm dia. × 3 mm
- Holding Power
- Zero (bistable)
- Configuration
- SPST
- Package
- SMD
- Availability
- Sampling Now