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SMT Recognizes FLEXITERM(TM) Technology with a 2005 Vision Award

Submitted by: John Warner on Mar 14, 2006 at 1:31 am Tagged with: Miscellany Source:

SMT Recognizes FLEXITERM(TM) Technology with a 2005 Vision Award

MYRTLE BEACH, S.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 13, 2006--AVX Corporation, a leading manufacturer of passive components, received a 2005 Vision Award from SMT magazine in the Passives and Components category for its innovative FLEXITERM(TM) Technology. SMT announced the recipients of the 2005 Vision Awards at an awards ceremony on February 8, 2006 in Anaheim, Calif.

"SMT Vision Awards serve as an industry benchmark of excellence for new technologies," said Craig Hunter, AVX Strategic Marketing Manager. "When introducing FLEXITERM, we broke industry standards by allowing almost three times the amount of board flexure when compared to standard termination systems and further enhanced the capabilities of standard MLCCs. We are pleased that the FLEXITERM technology has been recognized by SMT as an industry benchmark with a 2005 Vision Award."

FLEXITERM is a soft termination system that was developed as an additional flexible termination layer added to the component to ensure electrical integrity is maintained when external forces are applied. This new high-conductivity termination material was added to the AVX standard X7R dielectric ceramic capacitor to prevent failures in the system due to cracking.

AVX's FLEXITERM offers up to of 5mm of flexure, without internal cracks, versus the industry standard of 2mm. In addition, FLEXITERM can achieve 3000 temperature cycles as compared to the industry standard of just 1000 cycles.

FLEXITERM is designed so capacitors will not crack under extreme environmental conditions however, in the rare scenario where a board may flex beyond 5mm, FLEXITERM is designed so a potential failure would be limited to the termination area and in open mode. With FLEXITERM, the open circuit occurs in a small area of the termination, resulting in little or no degradation to the capacitor's performance.

For more information, contact AVX at 801 17th Avenue South, Myrtle Beach, S.C. 29578; by calling 843-448-9411, by fax at 843-444-2864 or on the Web at www.avx.com.

AVX Corporation is a leading international supplier of electronic passive components and connectors with 28 manufacturing and customer support facilities in 14 countries around the world. AVX offers a broad range of devices including capacitors, resistors, filters, timing and circuit protection devices and connectors. The company is publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE:AVX).