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Product category: Capacitors
News Release from: HolyStone (Europe) | Subject: Superterm MLCCs
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 28 April 2008

Large capacitors avoid board bending

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Superterm is a flexible board polymer termination that helps avoid board bending in multilayer ceramic chip capacitors.

HolyStone (Europe) has released large case size multilayer ceramic chip capacitors (MLCCs) Historically, this type of surface-mount device has suffered from mechanical cracking due to board bending and surface arcing on the higher voltages, caused by surface contamination of the capacitor