Passives

The broadline distributor plans a major investment in its passives and electromechanical components division

Supercapacitors are beginning to displace batteries in high-power applications, including wind farms and basestations

Dramatically falling prices in the passive component market have not been repeated this year

AVX claims to have a tantalum capacitor with the highest volumetric efficiency

Analogue transducers will be added to the TEDS smart sensor interface specification

Transfers division to improve cooperation

Mobile makers keen to save the 70% of phone's space that is passives

Energy densities of 60Wh/l hoped for by 2005

The passive component market is expected to decline over the next four years, according to a report from the French research house Decision Etudes Conseil. The biggest decline will come from magnetics, for which the market is expected to slump by over four per cent a year from 2003 to 2007. Capacitors are projected to show 0.5 per cent CAGR growth ...