Tantalum capacitors
Tantalum capacitors combine high capacity with small case sizes.
The Electronic Industry has to handle the increasingly sophisticated requirements of the end customers. The applications are getting more and more powerful, smaller and of higher quality.
That’s the reason why also Tantalum- and Niobium-Capacitors have always had to improve their performance to satisfy the constantly changing requirements. The main categories are: Smaller case sizes and low profile series, for space-saving layout. Lower ESR-values (series resistance), for higher pulse frequencies. Higher capacities, for known case sizes for more powerful applications. Such products can only be achieved by the use of improved raw materials and clever designs but also by total new material technologies.
For example the volumetric efficiency of the tantalum powder has steadily increased over time, which allows the production of larger and larger capacitances with the same physical volume New methods of development establishes new possibilities such as the multi-anode configuration of capacitors. Furthermore the usage of new materials provided capacitors with new features.
