Murata's HiCap high capacitance range of multilayer ceramic capacitors (MLCCs) are replacing tantalum capacitors in increasing numbers of applications. MLCCs' excellent noise blocking performance at high frequency, lower impedance as well as lead time and price advantages mean they are more able to replace their tantalum counterparts.
Today’s electronic systems demand the use of high frequency digital signals and good noise absorption at these frequencies is a desired characteristic. Ceramic capacitors are better placed to address this application as their impedance at high frequencies is much lower than tantalum counterparts. In fact, when replacing a tantalum capacitor with a ceramic one, typically only one-fifth of the capacitance is required to produce the same noise absorption, reducing the price of the component and overall cost of the design.
Additional advantages for ceramic capacitors over tantalum include smaller self-heating effect, stable capacitance over a large frequency range, higher breakdown voltage and increased reliability. Another benefit of ceramic capacitors is they are not polarised like tantalums making the placement process simpler during manufacturing.
As the world’s No.1 producer of ceramic capacitors Murata has continued to increase production capacity whilst at the same time developing new material and process technologies which allow them to boast some of the highest capacitance values currently available in MLCC technology today, up to 220uF at this time.
The Murata HiCap range is available in 0201 to 1210 sizes, voltage ratings from 2.5V to 100V and capacitance range from 1uF to 220uF in a selection of dielectric materials. Murata have also developed a 01005 size capacitor in 0.1uF value which is one of the smallest size highest capacitance value products available in the market today. The products are available RoHS compliant, feature Tin plated terminations and are packaged on standard 180mm reels with an option of 330mm reels for larger volumes to reduce the amount of reel changes during the production process.
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