EPCI European Passive Components Institute would like to thank to all our supporters, sponsors, and anyone interested in passive components. We wish everyone happy new year 2021 and success in challenges that 2020 brought to our lives. EPCI...

The next revolutionary step in supercapacitor technology development is closing its energy density gap to batteries while power density is closer to capacitors. New supercapacitor active electrode materials based on graphene, that enable quick and safe energy charging...

The ability of tantalum capacitors to answer requirements for reliability, robustness and high energy density make them critically important for advanced medical applications such as lung ventilators and life support monitoring equipment. EPCI president Tomas Zednicek published an...

EPCI European Passive Components Institute is pleased to announce release of its free online global passive manufacturing database WHO is WHO in Passive Components Manufacturing. "We have been considering to make a global passive component manufacture database for...

EPCI European Passive Components Institute powered Passive Components Blog passive-components.eu website reached 30K monthly visitor rate milestone in February. "The Passive Components Blog popularity growth measured by number of the original IP web attendees and web search views...

Five MLCC manufacturers and Continental Automotive company as user representative discussed the MLCC Class II DC BIAS & Ageing Capacitance Loss as the Hot Panel Topic during the past 2nd PCNS Passive Components Networking Symposium 10-13th September 2019,...

by Tomas Zednicek, EPCI Last month I was presenting at T.I.C. 60th annual assembly in Hong Kong tantalum capacitors and its future. This morning two web articles grab my attention that fit nicely as pieces of the puzzle...

by: Tomas Zednicek, EPCI update: 31st October 2019 based on 2nd PCNS Passive Components Networking Symposium 10-13th September 2019, Bucharest, Romania Hot Panel Discussion inputs. This article can be downloaded in pdf version here. MLCC capacitors are dominating...

by Paul Svasta, Ciprian Ionescu, Alexandru Vasile, Cristina Marghescu, Bogdan Mihailescu, Andrei Drumea, Norocel Codreanu University “Politehnica” of Bucharest, Romania, Center of Technological Electronics and Interconnection Techniques, UPB-CETTI presented by P.Svasta at the 2nd PCNS 10-13th September 2019,...

by Ron Demcko AVX Corporation Fellow, USA presented by R.Demcko at the 2nd PCNS 10-13th September 2019, Bucharest, Romania as Keynote 1 and rated by PCNS attendees as the best Keynote presentation Abstract In the past, system power...