Ultra-High-Precision Bulk Metal Z-Foil Axial Resistors Offers Power Ratings to 1.0 W

The enhanced VTAZ series offers a broad resistance range of 5 Ω to 300 kΩ, power ratings from 0.2 W to 1.0 W at + 70 °C, and a low voltage coefficient of < 0.1 ppm/V. Like all Vishay Foil resistors, the VTAZ devices are not restricted to standard values, and can be supplied with “as required” values (e.g. 1.2345 kΩ vs. 1 kΩ) at no extra cost or delivery time.

The resistors feature a unique concept in resistor manufacturing that allows designers to guarantee a high degree of accuracy, precision, and stability in fixed resistor applications. A proprietary Bulk Metal Foil element with known and controllable properties is applied to a special ceramic substrate. A resistive pattern is then photoetched by an ultra-fine technique developed by Vishay. The devices’ etched planar construction results in the extremely low and reproducible reactance needed for high-frequency and pulse applications.

In applications requiring precise and stable resistors, TCR needs to be low over the full temperature range of the application. Only Z-Foil resistors, such as the VTAZ series, provide a very low absolute TCR that changes very little over the full temperature range of − 55 °C to + 125 °C and beyond. With Vishay Bulk Metal Foil resistors, a minimal shift in resistance will occur during the first few hundred hours of operation, with a very small and predictable change noted thereafter. Because load-life drift is minimalized in such a predictable and reliable way, control and correction circuitry can be eliminated, thereby saving cost in design, components, assembly and test.

Precision resistors based on BMF and Z-Foil technologies provide the best available specifications for precision, accuracy, and stability, delivering stable performance irrespective of changes in ambient temperature or electrical load and even after a long service life.

Offering the utmost in ESD immunity, the VTAZ devices withstand electrostatic discharges up to 25 kV, for increased reliability, and offer a non-inductive (< 0.08 µH), non-capacitive design. The devices are available with lead (Pb)-free and tin/lead alloy terminations.

Samples and production quantities of the VTAZ resistors are available now, with lead times of 5 working days for samples, and 5 weeks for standard orders.