New Industry Products

AVX Launches Series of High Reliability, Military and Aerospace-Specific Parts

January 17, 2006 by Jeff Shepard

AVX Corp. has developed an Automotive Plus Series (APS) of parts that has been qualified to the automotive AEC-Q200 standard, but manufactured and quality assurance-tested specifically for the high reliability requirements of the military and aerospace industry. The new series features the industry-preferred base metal electrode system (BME) for X7R ceramic. BME technology has excellent field reliability and the BME system allows AVX Corp. to deliver a more cost-effective solution to customers.

Each APS production batch is shipped with a certificate of conformance. On a quarterly basis a reliability package is available to all APS customers.

The detailed qualification package contains results on a range of part numbers including:

X7R dielectric components containing BME electrode and copper terminations with a Ni/Sn plated overcoat; X7R dielectric components BME electrode and soft terminations with a Ni/Sn plated overcoat (FLEXITERM™); X7R for hybrid applications; Epoxy finished components, which allow the parts to be conductive glue-mounted; and

NP0 dielectric components containing Pd/Ag electrode and silver termination with a Ni/Sn plated overcoat.

APS - NP0, X7R and X7R FLEXITERM™ components are also available finished with Tin Lead. APS parts are qualified and manufactured in accordance with automotive AEC-Q200 standards and all manufacturing facilities of APS parts are QS9000 and VDA 6.4 approved.

Pricing is $0.10 for 10,000 pieces for the 0603 X7R parts.