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Exxelia Ohmcraft Custom Resistors Help Ensure Reliability of Most-Deployed Anti-Tank Missile in the World

ROCHESTER, N.Y., January 28, 2020 — In times of warfare, the reliability of military weapons is absolutely critical to the success of a mission. For nearly a decade, military contractors have leveraged Exxelia Ohmcraft’s custom, high voltage resistors and dividers to ensure product performance in a ...

In times of warfare, the reliability of military weapons is absolutely critical to the success of a mission. For nearly a decade, military contractors have leveraged Exxelia Ohmcraft’s custom, high voltage resistors and dividers to ensure product performance in a variety of military applications, including the FGM-148 Javelin—the most-deployed anti-tank missile in the world.

In a variety of military applications, including the FGM-148 Javelin—the most-deployed anti-tank missile in the world.“Missiles are exposed to extreme climate conditions and often sit idle—sometimes for several years—before they are launched. When that time comes, it is essential for those missiles to perform as expected,” said Eric Van Wormer, Vice President of Exxelia Ohmcraft. “Exxelia Ohmcraft custom resistors are designed to support the rigorous precision and reliability specifications required by military suppliers to withstand the harsh environmental conditions, ensuring that the missile remains fully operational under all circumstances.

Exxelia Ohmcraft performs a full range of military lot acceptance testing (LAT) on resistors as necessary, and works closely with military contractors to meet the design requirements for each particular application. In the case of the FGM-148 Javelin, a small, lightweight form factor was imperative to keep the missiles as lightweight and portable as possible.

Exxelia Ohmcraft’s technology utilizes the proprietary Micropen electronic printing system to “print” precise, narrow, serpentine lines with resistive ink on a ceramic substrate, producing higher performance resistors over a wider range of values on a smaller surface area than is possible with conventional film resistor technology.

Published on 03 Feb 2020 by Rebecca Charles

Exxelia Ohmcraft: Empowering Military Innovations

Innovation is the cornerstone of military success. At Exxelia Ohmcraft, we understand this fundamental truth. For over two decades, we have been the stalwart provider in the realm of electronic warfare, weapons platforms, force protection, and intelligence programs. Our steadfast commitment lies in enabling advancements across diverse military sectors through our unparalleled custom resistors. Our unique Micropen® precision printing technology produces ultra-stable parts that are perfectly suited to the military’s rugged requirements, delivering a typical load life of 0.1% over 10,000 hours. This proven stability, accuracy, and quality support the long-term program life of many military products and programs. Micropen technology produces a superior resistor. The combination of our longer serpentine pattern and high-aspect ratio gives our resistors unmatched design flexibility, linearity, stability, and low noise capability, as well as:     High Voltage (to 40 kV) Low Noise / Very low noise Vers low TCR Resistor Value (> 1 MΩ up to 10 TΩ) Ultra-high stability Extremely tight tolerances to 0.1%         Custom designs for Military applications Exxelia Ohmcraft’s ability to design and deliver custom resistors is essential for military suppliers. Our engineers work closely with you to design resistors that match your exact specifications. Surface-mount resistors, dividers, and networks Extensive experience designing custom resistors and supporting source control drawings (SCD) for existing and new designs Small runs to support prototypes to large volume manufacturing Exxelia Ohmcraft can test parts using a number of military specs, including: MIL-PRF-55342, 83401, 55182H, 914B, and 49462B MIL-STD-129, 1276F, and 1285F MIL-STD-202 Space-grade resistors Extended temperature range Rapid prototyping   Our expertise in designing for military applications spans across a spectrum of products, each contributing significantly to advancing military capabilities: Flight & Space   Products: HVC, HVR, HVD, HVCD and Custom Applications: Aerospace Flight controls Satellites SATCOM Microwave Radar Tactical   Products: HVC, HVR, HVD, HVCD and Custom Applications: Night vision goggles Ordnance Electronic warfare Munitions Bomb fuze Tasers   Systems   Products: HVC, HVR, HVD, HVCD and Custom Applications: Surveillance Detection Navigation Monitoring Sight systems Motion control Communications Networks   At Exxelia Ohmcraft, our commitment transcends the creation of resistors. We are dedicated to empowering the visionary innovations that define the future of military technology. Our team is poised to collaborate and customize solutions that perfectly align with the evolving needs of military applications. In a landscape where reliability is non-negotiable and precision is imperative, Exxelia Ohmcraft stands as the beacon of unwavering support, fortifying military operations with resilient, high-performance resistors. Exxelia Ohmcraft’s sister division, Exxelia Micropen Medical is at the forefront of medical device product development, providing design engineers with unique insights on conceiving and implementing new designs and features. 

HIGH VOLTAGE CERAMIC CAPACITORS BASED ON BRAND NEW DIELECTRIC MATERIAL

No more compromises between stability and capacitance! The brand new C48X material combines most advantages of NPO and X7R dielectrics, enabling the new high power and high frequency ceramic capacitor range to provide great stability in voltage, high capacitance, great dissipation factor and fast charge/discharge. Miniaturization is a driving need for future electronics pieces of equipment. This evolution, true whatever the application, leads Exxelia Technologies (ex-Eurofarad) to develop a brand new high voltage ceramic capacitors range based on a new dielectric material named C48X, combining most of the advantages of NPO and X7R dielectrics. Compared to X7R material, C48X dielectric allows to get the same capacitance values under working voltage with the unrivaled advantage of a very low dissipation factor (less than 5.10-4). Besides, it can also withstand very high dV/dt, up to 10kV/μs, which makes it the solution of choice for pulse and fast charge/discharge applications. Thus capacitors with C48X dielectric appear to be ideally suited for power applications where heat dissipation may be detrimental to performances and reliability. Exxelia Technologies’ capacitors based on the C48X material have been developed from 200V to 5kV with chip sizes ranging from 1812 to 16080, allowing a maximum capacitance value of 10μF 200V (10 times more than with an NPO ceramic). The standard stacked versions are proposed with a maximum capacitance value of 47μF 200V. Regarding the mounting of these capacitors, many configurations are possible to be compatible either with surface mounting or through-hole mounting. All these versions can be suitable for space use and can be designed in order to avoid any whisker growth risk (10% min lead in all tin-lead alloys used). The introduction of the C48X range in the EPPL (European Space Agency Preferred Parts List) for space is in progress for sizes 0603 to 6560 from 100V to 1kV up to size 1210 and up to 5kV until the size 6560). Some typical applications: • 400Hz Aircraft • Defense • Space • Precision/filtering capacitance in thermally challenged environment for AC or DC voltage
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