Passives

TTI is now offering Panasonic’s 1,100Vdc series that has been added to the existing 630Vdc ECWFG Series Metallised Polypropylene Film Capacitors.

Panasonic Industry Europe has added the FN series, a low ESR Aluminum Electrolytic capacitors Surface Mount type, to its product line-up. Available from a rated voltage of 6.3VDC to 100VDC, the FN series offers wide capacitance values (10µF up to 1800µF), which are between 20% and 80% higher than the long-running FK series.

If active components are the attention-grabbing rock stars of the component world, then passives are the backstage team: just as important, but getting on with their job quietly in the background. By Patryk Lisiak, Passive Components Product Specialist at TME

Pasternack has just released a new line of waveguide shorts and shims that are well suited for use in satellite communication, radar, wireless communication, and test and instrumentation applications.

Vishay Intertechnology has announced that the company has extended its TNPU e3 series of Automotive Grade ultra precision thin film flat chip resistors with a new space-saving component in the compact 0402 case size.

There is an on-going trend to smaller, portable and more functional devices in the consumer electronics world. This is particularly true in the current sense chip resistor market where power control architectures are being downsized even as the functionality is being enhanced.

Low resistance values are important for high efficiency current sensing in that lower values mean less wasted power on the current sensing measurement itself. But sensing low resistance values becomes challenging because of lead resistance. Using a four terminal shunt resistor eliminates the detrimental effects of lead resistance on the current sensing measurement operation.

Pickering Electronics has launched an extremely small high voltage reed relay, housed in the miniature SIL/SIP package, new Series 131 reed relays have a footprint of just 12.5x3.7mm and a height of 6.6mm and deliver a minimum stand-off of 1,500V.

The TNPU e3 series of Automotive Grade ultra-precision thin film flat chip resistors from Vishay Intertechnology has been extended with a new space-saving component in the compact 0402 case size.

Murata has announced a small new multilayer ceramic capacitor (MLCC). As portable devices such as smartphones, hearing aids, wearable technology and other modules become increasingly multifunctional and more compact, so the demand for higher circuit densities is growing among electronic engineers.