A Soft Termination MLCC Solution to Guard Against Capacitor Crack Failures

摘要

Significant progress has been made in the development of enhanced termination systems to reduce MLCC failures caused by mechanical damage. Polymer based FlexiTerm systems offer increased system performance and reliability by minimizing stresses transferred to MLCCs. This results in greater than 2x standard board deflection capability with enhanced termination technology devices. Additionally, this translates into significant temperature cycling capability (roughly 3x standard termination devices). Applications for FlexiTerm now extend well beyond automotive sectors with significant volume used in Power Supplies, Telecoms, Basestations and Instrumentation.