High-temperature (HT) converters have gained importance in industrial applications where
the converters operate in a harsh environment, such as in hybrid electrical vehicles, aviation …

Polymer-ceramic nanocomposite piezoelectric and dielectric films are of interest because of
their possible application to advanced embedded energy storage devices for printed wired …

In this paper, an experimental study was conducted to study susceptibility to flex cracking of
multilayer ceramic capacitors (MLCCs), in which a comparison was made between identical …

The Weibull distribution has been previously applied to the mechanical and dielectric
failures of ceramics. In this paper, it is confirmed by experiment that this data treatment …

Cracking remains the major reason of failures in multilayer ceramic capacitors (MLCCs)
used in in space electronics. Due to a tight quality control of space-grade components, the …

The traditional method assesses the impact of fractures on electronics by calculating test
results for many samples, which ignores variation in manufacturing parameters between …

The internal stresses in BaTiO3 based multilayer ceramic capacitors (MLCCs), showing Y5V
characteristics, were estimated with a sharp indentation method using a micro-indenter. The …

This paper explores the effect of the binder phase on the mechanical strength of room
temperature fabricated (RTF) SrTiO 3 ceramic composites. Lithium molybdate-strontium …

A two‐dimensional numerical model that predicts the reliability of multilayer capacitors
(MLCs) during soldering and bending is presented. The Weibull parameters used in the …

The modelling of non-linear coupled material characteristics has been used for finite
element simulations of the integral device behaviour and mechanical and electrical stress …