The US company Passive Plus has developed a series of Broadband and Ultra-Broadband capacitors: the 0402BB103, 0402BB104, and the 0201BB104. These capacitors are intended primarily for decoupling RF signals and DC. The applications for which they are intended require small, surface-mountable devices that provide low RF impedances and low insertion losses, across extremely large RF bandwidths and temperatures typically ranging from -55 to +85 ºC.

Existing single-layer and multilayer capacitors cannot provide a very wide band of operating frequencies and low resistance and small insertion losses in all frequency subbands. In new capacitors Passive Plus overcome existing limitations that allows a very wide frequency band.

The specific characteristics of the models 0402BB103, 0402BB104 and 0201BB104 are, respectively:

• Capacitance: 10, 100 and 100 nF
• Operating frequency range: 16 kHz … 16 GHz, 16 kHz … 35 GHz и 16 kHz … 50 GHz
• Insertion losses: 0.4 and 0.8 dB (6 and 16 GHz); 0.5 and 1.1 dB (9 and 30 GHz); 0.3 and 0.25 dB (20 and 40 GHz)
• Return losses: -25 dB (14 GHz); -20 dB (22 GHz); -27 dB (40 GHz)
• Sizes: 1.016х0.508х0.610 mm; 1.016х0.508х0.610 mm; 0.6х0.3х0.3 mm
• Operating temperature range: -55…+125 ºC
• Temperature coefficient of capacitance (TCC): ±15% (-55…+125 ºC)
• Rated voltage: 16 V
• Dielectric withstanding voltage (DWV): 250% of rated voltage for 5 sec
• Insulation resistance (min): 10¹¹ Ohm

New capacitors from Passive PLUS are designed for optoelectronic high-speed data systems, transmit/receive optical subassemblies, SONET (Synchronous Optical Networks), broadband test equipment, broadband microwave and millimeter wave amplifiers and oscillators.

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