AVX Wins the 2015 Passive & Electromechanical Product of the Year at the Prestigious Elektra Awards
AVX Corporation, a leading manufacturer of passive components and interconnect solutions, has received Electronics Weekly’s 2015 Passive and Electromechanical Product of the Year Elektra Award for its TCH Series high voltage, hermetically sealed polymer chip capacitors, which, by virtue of their package, were the world’s first effective polymer capacitor solution for high reliability, high voltage, and high temperature application.
Widely recognized as the leading promotional platform for celebrating the electronics achievements of individuals and companies across Europe, the Elektra European Electronics Industry Awards honor the most remarkable new products, technology innovations, and company performances of the year.
AVX’s high reliability, high voltage TCH Series polymer chip capacitors are hermetically sealed in robust ceramic cases filled with inert gas to eliminate material and performance degradation resulting from exposure to high temperature, high humidity, and ambient atmosphere. Manufactured and screened using AVX’s patented Q-Process, TCH Series capacitors exhibit high reliability endurance of up to 10,000 hours at 85ºC and rated temperature making them ideal for use in a variety of demanding, mission-critical applications.
The series also features low ESR and exhibit low derating capabilities, low leakage current (0.1CV), high ripple current, high capacitance (22µF to 680µF), and the highest voltages (10-100V) of any space-grade SMD tantalum polymer capacitor currently available on the market.
TCH series has not only demonstrated 150ºC capability in recent testing, but has shown potential for a 150V rating, and maybe even more, which would be yet another breakthrough in solid electrolytic capacitor development.
