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The Path to Thinner MLCCs and Innovative Capacitor Development

2.4.2025
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This article written by KYOCERA is introducing their material process for thinning the layers of highly reliable MLCC ceramic capacitors and the road to new product development.

As electronic devices become smaller and more sophisticated, multilayer ceramic chip capacitors (MLCCs) are becoming smaller and thinner, and there is a need to develop highly reliable MLCCs that can operate even under harsh conditions.

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However, there are challenges in making the layers thinner, and various technological advances have been required.

Material Process Issues for Thinner Layers

With conventional technology, there was a problem that making the dielectric layer thinner reduced the continuity of the internal electrodes.
As the layers were thinner, unevenness in the internal electrodes, coarse particles in the dielectric layer, impurities, and defects became larger and larger defects, leading to an increase in short circuits, a decrease in voltage resistance, and reduced reliability. It was also assumed that thinning the layers would reduce the number of particles per layer, which would lead to reduced reliability.*1。

 *1: For details on how the number of particles per layer contributes to high reliability, please see Evaluation and Analysis Technology Visualizes Areas of Deterioration

Therefore, it became important to develop new material processes for thinning the layers.

Evolution of Thin Layer Technology

To achieve even thinner layers, it was necessary to evolve each of the elemental technologies for dielectrics, internal electrodes, and firing, as well as to evolve the technology to combine these new elemental technologies.

We will introduce our work on internal electrodes as an example of thin-layer technology.

The raw chip SEM was binarized to quantify the thickness and variation of the internal electrode layer and dielectric layer. The variation of the internal electrode film thickness was improved by reducing the diameter of the Ni particles and improving the particle size distribution, co-material size, plate cylinder design, and paste rheology (red frame in the graph).

Thus, designing for variation/local defects is particularly important in thin layer technology.

Continuity results of internal electrodes using thin layer technology

By combining improvements to the internal electrodes with thin-layer technology for dielectrics and firing, we were able to achieve an improvement of approximately 10% and coverage from the 80% range to the 90% range at the same thickness ratio (EIA 0201 size, high-layer stack).

Furthermore, as shown in the left figure, even with an internal electrode thickness of 0.45 μm, good continuity of over 90% coverage was maintained, and we were able to achieve a thin dielectric layer and high coverage and thin internal electrode layer.

However, since the internal electrode is still thicker than the dielectric, it is believed that the internal electrode can be made even thinner. We will continue to work on developing even thinner layer technology.

New Product Development and World-Leading Announcements

The development of the material process, evaluation and analysis technologies led to the release of an EIA 0201 size product with a capacitance value of 10μF, the highest capacitance class in the industry and a world-leading announcement.

Temperature CharacteristicsX5R (EIA)
Operating Temperature Range-55℃ to +85℃
Temperature Coefficient±15%
Capacitance10μF
Capacitance ToleranceK(±10%)、M(±20%)
Dissipation Factor10% MAX.
IR50MΩ・μF MIN.
Rated Voltage4.0Vdc

MLCC size trends

In terms of the development of MLCCs worldwide, EIA 0805 10μF was developed in 2001, EIA 0603 10μF in 2004, and then EIA 0402 10μF in 2008, four years later (according to Kyocera). And the EIA 0201 10μF developed by Kyocera in 2023 was the first downsizing in 15 years.

Kyocera will continue to develop MLCCs in line with market trends toward smaller size and higher capacity.

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