MLCC with FLEXITERM
®
General Specifications
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
With increased requirements from the automotive industry for additionalcomponent robustness, AVX recognized the need to produce a MLCC with
enhanced mechanical strength. It was noted that many components may be
subject to severe flexing and vibration when used in various under the hood
automotive and other harsh environment applications.To satisfy the requirement for enhanced mechanical strength, AVX had tofind a way of ensuring electrical integrity is maintained whilst external forcesare being applied to the component. It was found that the structure of the
termination needed to be flexible and after much research and development,AVX launched FLEXITERM
® . FLEXITERM
® The industry standard forflexure is 2mm minimum. Using FLEXITERM is designed to enhance themechanical flexure and temperature cycling performance of a standard
ceramic capacitor with an X7R dielectric.
® , AVX provides up to5mm of flexure without internal cracks. Beyond 5mm, the capacitor manufacturers
will generally fail “open”. As well as for automotive applications FLEXITERM
® will provide DesignEngineers with a satisfactory solution when designing PCB’s which may be
subject to high levels of board flexure.
APPLICATIONS
High Flexure Stress Circuit Boards • e.g. Depanelization: Components near edgesof board.
PRODUCT ADVANTAGES
Variable Temperature Applications
• High mechanical performance able to withstand, 5mm bend test guaranteed.
• Soft termination offers improved reliability per-formance in applications where there is tem-
perature variation.• e.g. All kind of engine sensors: Direct connection to battery rail. •
Increased temperature cycling performance, 3000 cycles and beyond.
• Improved reliability.
• Excellent mechanical performance and thermo mechanical performance. •
Flexible termination system.
Automotive Applications •
Reduction in circuit board flex failures.
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Automotive or commercial grade products available.
HOW TO ORDER
0805 5 C 104 K A Z 2 A
Style Voltage Dielectric CapacitanceCode (In pF) CapacitanceTolerance FailureRate Terminations Packaging Special Code 0603
0805
1206
1210
1812 6 = 6.3VZ = 10VY = 16V3 = 25V
5 = 50V
1 = 100V
2 = 200V C = X7RF = X8R Z = FLEXITERM
® 2 = 7" reel4 = 13" reel A = Std. Product 2 Sig Digits +Number of Zerose.g., 104 = 100nF J = ±5%*K = ±10%M = ±20% A=Commercial4 = AutomotiveNOTE: Contact factory for availability of Tolerance Options for Specific Part Numbers. For FLEXITERM
® with Tin/Lead termination seeAVX LD Series
* ≤ 1µF only 45