Very shortly after an engineer s first exposure to mlccs they are quickly confronted with an alphabet soup of letters and numbers.
Ceramic temperature coefficient.
The first letter gives the significant figure of the change in capacitance over temperature temperature coefficient α in ppm k.
Class 1 ceramic temperature coefficient.
A temperature coefficient describes the relative change of a physical property that is associated with a given change in temperature for a property r that changes when the temperature changes by dt the temperature coefficient α is defined by the following equation.
Fine ceramics typically have a low coefficient of thermal expansion which indicates their expansion ratio due to changes in temperature.
Ceramic capacitor temperature coefficient tc coding class i temperature compensation type ceramic tc tc tolerance ppm c ppm c symbol for tc 25c to 85c see 4 10 25c to 55c calculated np0 c0 30ppm 30 72 n33 s1 30ppm 30 79 n75 u1 30ppm 30 89 n150 p2 30ppm 30 105.
What do they all mean and what do they refer to.
Here α has the dimension of an inverse temperature and can be expressed e g.
Fine ceramics also known as advanced ceramics have low coefficients of thermal expansion less than half those of stainless steels.
Ceramic temperature coefficients specify how much a mlcc s capacitance will change with applied temperature.
Technical data coefficient of thermal expansion.
The second character gives the multiplier of the temperature coefficient.
The coefficient ratio of thermal expansion indicates how much a material expands per 1 2 2 rise in temperature.
Temperature compensating type multilayer ceramic capacitors have a small temperature coefficient of electrostatic capacitance max.
30 ppm c 25 c reference within the temperature range of 55 c to 125 c.
Popular class 2 ceramic dielectrics include x7r which as a temperature range of 55 to 125 c with a δc c0 of 15 y5v which as a temperature range of 30 to 85 c with a δc c0 of 22 82 and z5u which has a temperature range of 10 to 85 c and a δc c0 22 56.
That is to say these are c0g characteristics products with a small temperature variance width.
C0g x7r x5r u2j etc.
In 1 k or k 1.