ARCOTRONICS GROUP, A KEMET COMPANY – PASSIVE COMPONENTS
Arcotronics Group, a KEMET company, is a world leading producer of passive components including the SMD film capacitor, film capacitor, EMC-RFI filter, aluminum electrolytic capacitor, and ceramic capacitor.
Arcotronics is a leading manufacturer of plastic film and metallized plastic film capacitors and wet tantalum capacitors, from Blue Skye (Lux) S.a.r.l., a company owned by the special opportunities funds managed by D.B. Zwirn & Co., L.P. In addition to manufacturing capacitors, Arcotronics is a leading manufacturer of battery and film capacitor machinery. Kemet acquired Arcotronics Italia S.p.A., a manufacturer of plastic film and metallized plastic film capacitors and wet tantalum capacitor in October 2007.
KEMET Corporation applies world-class service and quality to deliver industry-leading, high-performance capacitance solutions to its customers around the world. KEMET offers the world’s most complete line of surface-mount and through-hole capacitor technologies across tantalum, ceramic, aluminum, film and paper dielectrics. KEMET’s common stock is listed on The New York Stock Exchange under the symbol KEM
Products
| Arcotronics Capacitors | ||
|
APPLICATIONS
- Harsh Environments: KEMET is a leader in providing high reliability ceramic and tantalum capacitance solutions for mission critical applications in the defense, aerospace, and avionics markets. Our high reliability tantalum and ceramic capacitors are designed, manufactured, tested, and screened to ensure long life in the most demanding applications.
-
- Medical: Components used in medical applications and solutions need to demonstrate high levels of reliability and safety as failure is not an option. KEMET has a long-standing history of supplying high-reliability components for mission critical applications. Beginning in WWII, KEMET has offered an extensive portfolio of components suitable for industries such as automotive, defense, and aerospace. This expertise in technology development and materials science is applied to the medical industry where reliability is critical and lives are at stake. KEMET components can be found in the body, on the body, and around the body. KEMET is a trusted supplier of components to devices that sustain and save lives.
-
- Power Supplies:Power conversion has a significant impact on a wide range of industries including medical, commercial, and industrial. With power conversion comes the risk of power loss and a host of other complications, which is why securing the right products to properly convert power is crucial in any application. KEMET products provide optimal power conversion in industrial equipment, consumer electronics, medical devices, and more. Many power converters use a film DC-link capacitor in an AC/AC topology as an intermediary DC step between AC sections of circuits such as motor drivers and inverters.
-
- RF Wireless
- Solar:KEMET builds capacitors, inductors, sensors, and piezoelectric devices for industrial applications in companies ranging from power generation to factory automation. These products enable the next generation of alternative energy, harvesting wind and solar.
-
For additional information about KEMET Applications, visit the applications section of their website.
Characteristics
KEMET Multilayer Ceramic Capacitors (MLCCs) are a preferred capacitance solution, offering tremendous performance, reliability and cost advantages for circuit designers. Our comprehensive line of surface mount and through-hole devices are utilized in a wide variety of computer, telecommunications, automotive, military, medical and consumer electronics. Primary applications include decoupling, filtering, bypassing and smoothing.
Ceramics are non-polar devices which offer unsurpassed volumetric efficiency, delivering the highest capacitance in the smallest package sizes in the market. Available in a wide range of sizes, KEMET MLCCs offer very low equivalent series resistance (ESR), exhibit excellent high frequency characteristics and are extremely reliable. KEMET is driving ceramic capacitor technology advancement, resulting in smaller case sizes, better performances and lower costs. These factors have accelerated the progression of readily available ceramics into markets and applications previously occupied by tantalum, aluminum and film capacitors, lowering the risk of material shortages.
MLCCs are monolithic devices that consist of laminated layers of specially formulated, ceramic dielectric materials interspersed with a metal electrode system. The layered formation is then fired at high temperature to produce a sintered and volumetrically efficient capacitance device. A conductive termination barrier system is integrated on the exposed ends of the chip to complete the connection.
KEMET offers one of the broadest product portfolios of ceramic capacitors in the industry, which allows us to provide customers the right combination of dielectric, termination system, form factor and screening.