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KEMET Announces New Ceramic Surface-Mount Capacitor Array

Multi-Element Ceramic Capacitor Provides Numerous Benefits


September 9, 1997 (Greenville, South Carolina) -- KEMET Electronics Corporation today announced its entry into the rapidly growing ceramic surface-mount capacitor array marketplace.

The new KEMET 1632 ceramic surface-mount capacitor array incorporates four individual 0603 ceramic capacitor elements into one common 1206 monolithic multilayer structure. This multi- element capacitor array requires only a fraction of the board space required for four individual capacitors, allowing for increased board density and more circuit function per unit area. Additionally, single unit placement (rather than four individual capacitor placements) and reduced inventory requirements associated with the 1632 array allow for significant reduction in operating, capital equipment, and inventory costs across all market segments of the electronics industry.

The 1632 array is being standardized by the EIA, and will soon be included in EIA documentation. KEMET's 1632 arrays, which are manufactured in QS-9000 registered facilities, use the same basic technologies and systems currently used in KEMET 0603 ceramic surface-mount capacitors. Each 1632 capacitor array is individually tested to ensure capacitance, dissipation factor, voltage exposure, and insulation resistance. In addition, every array is tested to ensure that each element in the monolithic structure is electrically isolated, an extremely imporatant consideration for multi-element designs such as this one.

KEMET will offer the ceramic 1632 arrays in the C0G dielectric with a capacitance range of 10pF-470pF, and in the X7R dielectric with a capacitance range of 330pF-0.10µF in 16, 25, and 50 volts. The arrays will be available in tape and reel packaging with 4,000 arrays per 7" reel, or 10,000 arrays per 13" reel. Samples will be available in late September, with full production scheduled to begin in October, 1997.

KEMET Corporation, headquartered in Greenville, South Carolina, is the largest manufacturer of solid tantalum capacitors in the world and the second largest manufacturer of multilayer ceramic capacitors in the United States. KEMET's common stock is listed on the NASDAQ Stock Market's National Market under the symbol KMET. Company information is available on the Internet at http://www.kemet.com.


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