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KEMET Honored at CARTS Europe
October 9, 2006 |Estimated reading time: 1 minute
GREENVILLE, S.C. In recognition of a technical paper presented at the 2005 Capacitor and Resistor Technology Symposium (CARTS) Europe, three KEMET Corporation employees received honors from the 2005 CARTS delegates and program committee. Winning papers from 2005's symposium held in Prague, Czech Republic, in October 2005 were presented at CARTS Europe held September 25 28, 2006, in Bad Homburg, Germany.
Co-authors Randy Hahn; Jim Piller; and Phil Lessner, Ph.D., were awarded the 2005 Per-Olof Fagerholt for their submission, "Improved SMT Performance of Tantalum Conductive Polymer Capacitors with Very Low ESR," which outlines Six Sigma improvement methodologies that reduce SMT shorts by an order of magnitude in conductive polymer tantalum capacitors with ESR as low as 5 mW. It describes project goals, development of measurement techniques, conceptual modeling to explain SMT failures, process and material improvements, and new control measures instated.
CARTS is an annual forum featuring developments in passive technology solutions, test and measurement methods, and applications. Symposium presentations, seminars, and exhibits educate a network of raw-material suppliers, manufacturers, design engineers, and academia. KEMET actively contributes to the 26-yr.-old CARTS; Yuri Freeman, Ph.D., principal scientist in tantalum technology at KEMET, gave a technical seminar on comparative analysis of capacitor performance and reliability at CARTS 2006, and members of the company presented five papers. Two KEMET scientists, Freeman and Ralf Deisenhofer, Ph.D., tantalum research and development in Heidenheim, Germany, serve on the CARTS Europe 2006 program committee.