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Smallest surface mount tantalum capacitor
28 August 2002
AVX expanded its extensive line of passive components with the addition of the 0402 TACMicrochip, claimed to be the industry's smallest surface mount tantalum capacitor. Offering design engineers the ...

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Tiny ceramic low pass filters handle up to 10 W
28 August 2002
Mini-Circuits' LPCA series is a variety of seven different low pass filters with cutoff frequencies ranging from 500 to 2050 MHz. These very low profile 7,62 x 6,35 x 1,78 LPCA and 17,78 x 8,13 x 1,78 ...

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Better safety capacitors
14 August 2002
Safety capacitors have existed for so long that we tend to take them for granted, and assume that not much is happening. Not true! In ceramic technology, a great deal has happened over the years and more ...

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Electrolytic capacitors for 42 V automotive use
14 August 2002
BCcomponents is working alongside manufacturers to customise specifications of products for use in a range of automotive applications related to the 42 V standard. The company's 100 series electrolytic ...

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High current inductors with low profile
14 August 2002
BI Technologies' magnetic components division, TT electronics, has introduced a high performance low profile surface mount inductor with a closed magnetic circuit design for high density PC board assemblies. ...

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Broad interest sparks AO-CAP product line expansion
14 August 2002, TRX Electronics
Citing broad market interest in its AO-CAP aluminium polymer capacitor, and a growing interest in lower voltage devices, KEMET Electronics recently expanded the AO-CAP line to include larger capacitance ...

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Power capacitors
14 August 2002
Facon manufactures capacitors suited for AC and DC applications, and filtering and commutation, or where high capacitance and/or high voltages are requested; special terminals with a large cross-section ...

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Inductors for stable 2,4 GHZ frequencies
17 July 2002
Murata's thin-film SMD inductors, the LQP15M series, sits on an 0402 footprint and is only 0,35 mm high, ideal for 1,2 to 2,4 GHz Bluetooth modules. Tolerance is ±0,1nH below 10 nH and 2% or 5% at 10 ...

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Integrated resistor-capacitor design in 0603 package
17 July 2002
AVX's (Z) chip, a discrete impedance-matching series resistor/capacitor chip, is designed to meet the needs of today's high-speed, highly efficient circuits. The 0603 size chip is ideal for line termination ...

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Microwave multilayer capacitors
17 July 2002
AVX Corp is offering an extended range of porcelain and ceramic multilayer capacitors (MLCs) for RF and microwave applications ranging from 1 MHz to 10 GHz. Designated the AQ Series, these capacitors ...

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Toroidal rheostats
17 July 2002
OFEL offers rheostats made of a toroidally shaped ring, which is wound with resistive wire and fixed to a disk-shaped ceramic support with vitreous enamel. The toroid is completely covered with vitreous ...

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Low ohm value shunts
19 June 2002
OFEL has available solid resistors chiefly used for welding machines, power supplies and wherever it is necessary to pick up a voltage proportional to the current trend in the circuit in which they are ...

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Armoured IP54 braking resistors
5 June 2002
OFEL manufactures high quality power ROF armoured resistors in aluminium cases with a high level of protection IP54. These are designed to be easily integrated in control equipment of brushless or inverter-controlled ...

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Advantageous array technology
5 June 2002
Many components in one small package cut space, mounting cycles and costs. As things get smaller and cost less, the price of components is not the decisive factor, installed costs and space used are vital. ...

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Piezo speakers
5 June 2002
Murata offers a speaker using the same technology as its piezo buzzer. Dynamic speaker types with their associated limitations can be replaced. In a surface mounting package, with a free-air cavity in ...

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Tantalum caps with MnO2 provide better performance
8 May 2002
The TPS Series III tantalum chip capacitors from AVX feature superior electrical characteristics. According to the company they were developed to provide design engineers with low ESR, wide voltage range, ...

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Current-compensated SMD toroidal-core choke
8 May 2002, Sivan Electronic Supplies
Neosid has introduced a new SMD line. The SM-R3 toroidal-core choke has an R3 ferrite toroidal core, bifilar winding and/or sector winding. Applications are as data line choke for suppression of asymmetrical ...

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First tantalum capacitors with polymer multi-anodes
24 April 2002, Electrocomp
Epcos is the first manufacturer to ship tantalum chip capacitors with polymer multi-anodes. According to the manufacturer, the very low ESR (equivalent series resistance) of these innovative components ...

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Guide to 'trashing' tantalum chips
10 April 2002
An important document for design engineers, Chip monolithic ceramic capacitors as alternatives for chip tantalum capacitors, is the title of a new Murata publication aimed at tantalum users. The main ...

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CV values soar, ESR plummets - niobium, polymer and multi-anode technologies usher in the 'supercapacitor'
10 April 2002, Electrocomp
The development curve is flattening off in conventional tantalum electrolytic capacitors, so alternative technologies are in demand. The magic words enchanting designers now are 'niobium', 'polymer' and ...

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