| Multilayer ceramic capacitors (MLCC)are manufactured by suspending the ceramic powder in an organic solvent system and casting it by on technique or another into thin layers typically ranging from 2mils in thickness to 1mils or thinner.
Metal electrodes are deposited onto the green Ceramic layers which are then stacked to form a laminated structure.
The metal electrodes are arranged so that their terminations alternated from one edge of the capacitor to another.
Upon sintering at high temperature the part becomes a monolithic block which can provide extremely high capacitance values in small mechanical volumes.
Finally, the terminations are plated with a barrier layer followed by tin-lead alloy to permit MLCC to be soldered directly onto substrate. |
