Syfer Technology Ltd
Old Stoke Road
Arminghall, Norwich, NR14 8SQ, UK

Phone: 011-44-1603-723300
Fax: 011-44-1603-723301
E-Mail: sales@syfer.co.uk

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Syfer Technology is a UK-based supplier of ceramic multilayer chip capacitors (MLCC) for surface mount applications, and other specialty MLC products including EMI filters, and planar arrays. Syfer uses a "wet process" in its manufacturing of MLCs, unlike Novacap which uses a dry process. The ability to supply either technology insures that CPG can provide the ceramic multilayer chip capacitors needed in any electronic application.

The Syfer "Wet Process" creates less stress on the product and gives a more robust fused multilayer structure, ideal for automated pick and place procedures used in surface mount assembly. Syfer offers a choice of termination materials to meet the needs of all the major soldering techniques currently used. Chip capacitors up to and including size 2225 are available taped and reeled, on either 8mm or 12mm plastic blister tape. A choice of reel size is available.

Syfer is ISO9001 & ISO14001 certified.

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.

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.

Syfer's product line consists of:

• Surface Mount Chip Capacitors
  
• Stacked Chip Capacitors for Power Supply Applications
  
• Special Capacitors for Filtering Applications
  
• Radial Lead Capacitors
  
• Special Capacitor Products and Applications
  
  • High Voltage
  • Capacitor Arrays for Filters and Connectors
  • Low Voltage Chip Capacitors (16V and 25V)
  • Low Profile Chip Capacitors
  • Stacked Chip Capacitors
  • Panel mount feed-thru EMI Filters
  • Surface mount Pi filters
  • Tip and Ring Chip Capacitors/ring detect
  • IPCs (Integrated Passive Components)
• PCB and Surface Mount EMI Filters
  
• Solder Mount EMI Filters
  
• Screw Mount EMI Filters
  

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