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[January 2010]
Murata's Ceramic Capacitor for Power Electronics Wins an Elektra Award
The EVC series capacitor for power electronics, developed by Murata Group, has been awarded an Electra Award in the ‘Passive & Electromechanical Product of the Year’ category.
Excellent technologies and innovations in the field of electronics are awarded at the Elektra Awards hosted by Electronics Weekly, a British technological magazine catering to the largest number of subscribers in the industry. The Elektra Awards are given to products representing excellent European technologies and innovations in the field of electronics in 15 categories annually.
EVC is a monolithic ceramic capacitor series specialised for power electronics. Conventionally, film capacitors and aluminium electrolytic capacitors have been used in power system electric circuits of electric vehicles and hybrid vehicles. Murata developed new elemental technologies to commercialise ceramic capacitors usable in power electronics applications. Replacing conventional capacitors by ceramic capacitors makes equipment smaller and able to handle high currents. The EVC series was introduced in KERS (Kinetic Energy Recovery System) used in F1 race cars. Murata intends to widely promote solutions taking advantage of excellent potentials of the EVC series.
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