FlexiCap™ polymer termination  FlexiCap™  has been developed as a result of listening to customers’ experiences of stress damage to MLCC’s from many manufacturers, often caused by variations in production processes. Our answer is a proprietary flexible epoxy polymer termination material, that is applied to the device under the usual nickel barrier finish. FlexiCap™  will accommodate a greater degree of board bending than conventional capacitors. Although normally applied to X7R and X8R dielectrics, it is also available as an option for C0G/NP0 ceramic dielectrics.

The FlexiCap™  termination can be applied to many of the Syfer product range, including:

       - standard MLCC capacitors
       - Surge and Safety capacitors
       - 3 terminal EMI chip capacitors
       - X2Y chips
       - planar capacitor arrays
       - is applied to X8R high temperature chips as standard
       - also applied to 1206 size SBSP pi-filters as standard

The benefit to the user is to facilitate a wider process window - giving a greater safety margin and substantially reducing the typical root causes of mechanical stress cracking.

Based upon board bend tests in accordance with IEC 60384-1 the amount of board bending required to mechanically crack a polymer terminated capacitor is almost doubled compared with standard terminated capacitors.

FlexiCap™  may be soldered using your traditional wave or reflow solder techniques and needs no adjustment to equipment or current processes. Syfer has delivered millions of FlexiCap™  components and during that time has collected substantial test and reliability data, working in partnership with customers world wide, to eliminate mechanical cracking.

• Flexicap Termination (226KB)

• AN0001 Flexicap Termination (289KB)
• AN0002 Bend Testing (401KB)
• AN0004 Quality & Reliability Data (63KB)
• AN0005 Mechanical Cracking (184KB)
• AN0006 Ageing (357KB)
• AN0008 Lead-Free (598KB)
• AN0010 Lead-free Bend Test (283KB)
• AN0012 Lighting Ballasts (225KB)
• AN0013 Packaging Labels (2.59MB)
• FlexiCap article (358KB)
• RoHS Compliance List (50KB)