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This technical blog article written by Jern Ng, KYOCERA-AVX Components Corporation, explains benefits and use of SMD Thermal Conductors for PCB heat management. Introduction Efforts to miniaturize electronics are becoming increasingly common as Read the original post PCB Heat Management by SMD...

Learn about the aging behavior of resistors using temperature calculations and the Arrhenius equation to understand resistor drift and resistors stability in article written by Dr. Steve Arar and published Read the original post Resistors Stability Prediction on Passive...

Smoltek Nanotech Holding AB (“Smoltek”) announces that the group company Smoltek Semi AB (“Smoltek Semi”) has made significant progress in the development of the technology for ultra-thin CNF-MIM capacitors during the year. The recently announced collaboration agreement with the...

DigiTimes report commodity low end MLCC ceramic capacitors and chip resistor inventory rising based on its survey of Taiwan passive components manufacturers. Passive component makers have seen their commodity MLCC and chip resistor inventory swell since the second half of this...

TDK Corporation has announced the introduction of the new MLJ1608WG series of multilayer inductors. These compact SMD inductors are targeted at use in automotive Power over Coax (PoC) implementations. Mass production began in August 2022. The MLJ1608WG Series inductors...

This technical blog article written by Ron Demcko and Slavomir Pala, KYOCERA-AVX Components Corporation, explains use of aluminum electrolytic capacitors in three-phase BLDC motor controllers. The uses of industrial control systems and robotics are expanding rapidly due to their positive impact on costs...

prof. Sam Ben-Yaakov in his video explains fractional and half turn transformer. Why small number of turns ? lower leakage smaller inter-capacitance smaller conduction losses help to adjust core to copper loss ratio Related post: Transformer Calculation, Losses and...

Vishay Intertechnology, Inc. introduced the first AEC-Q200 qualified IHSR automotive high temperature inductor with current ratings to 155 A in the 19.0 mm by 17.1 mm by 7.0 mm 6767 case size. Designed for multi-phase, high current power supplies...

For industrial automation, binder offers M12-sized L-coded panel mount connectors. The standardized products are equipped with dip solder contacts. Soldered onto printed circuit boards, they support the trend towards decentralization and serve to supply devices with 63 V and...

The scientific paper on evaluation of effect of burn-in process on reliability of X7R multilayer ceramic capacitors has been published by Penn State researchers. Base metal electrode (BME) multilayer ceramic capacitors (MLCCs) continue to advance with higher volumetric capacitance,...