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 article tracking use of tantalum capacitors in lung ventilators. The article was published by T.I.C. Bulletin No. 181 in April 2020. Medical ventilators provide assistance for...

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 some time. Nevertheless, under the current worldwide pandemia, we have speed up the effort to introduce this tool in shortest possible time frame. The situation highlights...

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 is a high motivation for us to continue in this project focused on niche electronic field - passive components." said Tomas Zednicek, EPCI president and founder....

LTCC (Low Temperature Co-fired Ceramic) The use of LTCC material is gaining importance in applications in the field of communications. This is a multi-layer process used for the production of sophisticated HF components with good performance characteristics. The ceramic-based LTCC technology is an inexpensive substrate technology with which up to 50 layers are stacked on top of each other. The silver or gold conductor...

Power FLEX transformers The FLEX transformers (Figure 2.86) are especially well suited for DC-DC converters in the lower power rang. As a result of their winding structure, consisting of six individual windings each with the same number of turns, as well as the various air gaps available, the Flex transformers are very flexible in their application. Table 2.38 shows the different sizes, and Table...