Medical grade MLCCs
9 November 2016
Passive Components
AVX has released the new MM series of multilayer ceramic capacitors (MLCCs) for medical applications. Designed for use in medical devices that require significantly less parametric flexibility than commercial capacitors offer, but stop short of demanding the exceptionally stringent features of fully qualified medical capacitors, the MM series provides medical device manufacturers with extremely consistent, cost-competitive solutions that have the design and change controls necessary to achieve FDA approvals.
To further mitigate the risks already addressed by the defined designs, materials, processes and manufacturing facilities regulated by medical design and change controls, the capacitors also undergo internal reliability qualification, enhanced lot acceptance testing (LAT) and 100% inspection.
Available in NP0 (C0G) and X7R dielectrics, eight case sizes spanning 0402 to 2220, eight rated voltages spanning 10 V – 500 V, and capacitance values spanning 0,5 pF to 1,5 μF, MM series MLCCs are ideal for use in a wide range of medical devices, aside from those that are both implantable and life supporting, including: implantable, non-life-sustaining medical devices, such as insulin pumps and temporary implantable cardiac monitors; external, life-sustaining medical devices, such as external controllers for heart pumps; and strictly external medical devices, such as patient monitoring and diagnostic equipment.
Unlike commercial MLCCs, MM series MLCCs for medical applications feature specific series part numbers to control product supply.
For more information contact Pieter Engelbrecht, Avnet South Africa, +27 (0)11 319 8600, [email protected], www.avnet.co.za
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