Abstract: There is provided a chip type laminated capacitor including: a ceramic body formed by laminating a dielectric layer having a thickness equal to 10 or more times an average particle diameter of a grain included therein and being 3 ?m or less; first and second outer electrodes; a first inner electrode having one end forming a first margin together with one end surface of the ceramic body at which the second outer electrode is formed and the other end leading to the first outer electrode; and a second inner electrode having one end forming a second margin together with the other end surface of the ceramic body at which the first outer electrode is formed and the other end leading to the second outer electrode, wherein the first and second margins have different widths under a condition that they are 200 ?m or less.

Abstract: There are provided a conductive paste composition for an internal electrode, a multilayer ceramic electronic component including the same, and a method of manufacturing the same, the conductive paste composition including: a metal powder; and an additive including at least one selected from glutamic acid, amino acids, thiols, and hydrocarbons.

Abstract: In a multilayer ceramic electronic component, when a region of a ceramic body in layers where neither of a first internal electrode and a second internal electrode is provided as viewed in a direction in which a plurality of ceramic layers are stacked on one another is defined as a non-effective layer region, a dummy lead-through conductor is arranged in the non-effective layer region so as to lead to at least two locations on portions of superficies of the ceramic body and be electrically connected to a second external electrode. When a conductive medium is brought into contact with one of a plurality of exposed edges of the dummy lead-through conductor, a current is also applied to the other exposed edges.

Abstract: There is provided a multilayer ceramic electronic component, including: a ceramic sintered body having a plurality of dielectric layers laminated therein; first and second capacitance portions being formed on surfaces of the dielectric layers; first and second lead-out portions being respectively extended from both sides of the first and second capacitance portions to be respectively exposed through both side surfaces of the ceramic sintered body and spaced apart from each other; sealing parts enclosing both end portions and corner portions of the ceramic sintered body; and first and second external electrodes enclosing the sealing parts and formed on both end portions of the ceramic sintered body to be electrically connected to the first and second lead-out portions, respectively.

Abstract: Provided is a laminated ceramic electronic component which has excellent mechanical characteristics, internal electrode corrosion resistance, high degree of freedom in ceramic material design, low cost, low defective rate, and various properties. The laminated ceramic electronic component includes a laminate which has a plurality of laminated ceramic layers and internal electrodes formed along at a plurality of specific interface between the ceramic layers and having an Al/Ti alloy as a component; and an external electrode formed on the outer surface of the laminate. The Al/Ti ratio of the Al/Ti alloy is 91/9 or more.

Abstract: There is provided a multilayered ceramic electronic component including: a multilayered body in which a plurality of dielectric layers are stacked; a plurality of first and second internal electrodes formed on the dielectric layers so as to be alternately exposed through end surfaces; a minimum margin indicating part formed on an L-direction margin part on which the first or second internal electrode is not formed on the dielectric layer and indicating a minimum size of the L-direction margin part, the L-direction minimum margin indicating part being inserted on the ceramic sheet, whereby a multilayered ceramic electronic component having high capacitance while reducing a defect and having excellent reliability may be implemented.

Abstract: A capacitor includes a pair of electrodes and a metalized dielectric layer disposed between the pair of electrodes, in which the metalized dielectric layer has a plurality of metal aggregates distributed within a dielectric material. The distribution is such that a volume fraction of metal in the metalized dielectric layer is at least about 30%. Meanwhile, the plurality of metal aggregates are separated from one another by the dielectric material. A method for forming a metal-dielectric composite may include coating a plurality of dielectric particles with a metal to form a plurality of metal-coated dielectric particles and sintering the plurality of metal-coated dielectric particles at a temperature of at least about 750° C. to about 950° C. to transform the metal coatings into discrete, separated metal aggregates.

Abstract: There is provided a multilayer ceramic electronic component, including: a ceramic body having dielectric layers and first and second internal electrodes alternately stacked therein; and first and second external electrodes electrically connected to the first and second internal electrodes and formed at both ends of the ceramic body, wherein the ceramic body includes an effective layer contributing to capacitance formation and a protective layer provided on at least one of upper and lower surfaces of the effective layer, the protective layer including one or more step absorbing layers provided at both ends thereof, so that the multilayer ceramic electronic component can have excellent reliability by reducing defects such as electrode spreading, cracks, delamination and the like.

Abstract: There is provided a multilayer ceramic capacitor, and a method of manufacturing the same, the multilayer ceramic capacitor including: a ceramic body; a first internal electrode; a second internal electrode; a first external electrode; a second external electrode; and an insulating layer.

Abstract: Provided is a laminated ceramic electronic component having excellent mechanical characteristics, internal electrode corrosion resistance, high degree of freedom in ceramic material design, low cost, low defective rate, and various properties. The laminated ceramic electronic component includes: a laminate which has a plurality of laminated ceramic layers and internal electrodes at a plurality of specific interfaces between the ceramic layers and having an Al/Ni alloy as a component; and an external electrode formed on the outer surface of the laminate, wherein the Al/Ni ratio of the Al/Ni alloy is 85/15 or more.

Abstract: There is provided a multilayer ceramic capacitor including a ceramic body including a plurality of dielectric layers and having first and second main surfaces, first and second side surfaces, and first and second end surfaces; a first capacitor part including a first internal electrode exposed to the first end surface and a second internal electrode exposed to the second side surface and a second capacitor part including a third internal electrode exposed to the first side surface and a fourth internal electrode exposed to the second end surface; an internal connection conductor exposed to the first and second side surfaces; and first to fourth external electrodes electrically connected to the first to fourth internal electrodes and the internal connection conductor, wherein the internal connection conductor is connected to the first and second capacitor parts in series.

Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for fabricating a thin film capacitor involving depositing an electrode layer of conductive material on top of a substrate material, depositing a first layer of ferroelectric material on top of the substrate material using a metal organic deposition or chemical solution deposition process, depositing a second layer of ferroelectric material on top of the first layer using a high temperature sputter process and depositing a metal interconnect layer to provide electric connections to layers of the capacitor.

Abstract: A multilayer ceramic electronic component includes a ceramic main body having internal electrodes laminated therein; and external electrodes formed on ends of the ceramic main body in a length direction, wherein each external electrode includes a first layer formed on the ceramic main body and including a conductive metal, and a second layer formed on the first layer and including a conductive resin, and when Tc is thickness of a cover layer, Te is thickness of the internal electrode, Td is distance between neighboring internal electrodes, L1 is length from either end of the ceramic main body in the length direction in a region in which the cover layer adjoins a margin part of the ceramic main body to an end of the first layer formed on an upper or lower surface of the ceramic main body, and Lm is length of the margin part, Tc?70 ?m and L1<Lm+Tc×cot 50° are satisfied.

Abstract: There are provided a conductive paste composition for an internal electrode, a multilayer ceramic capacitor having the same, and a fabrication method thereof. The conductive paste composition for an internal electrode includes a binder, a solvent, and metal powder for an internal electrode, including a nickel particle coated with a nickel nitride.

Abstract: There is provided a multilayer ceramic electronic component, including: a ceramic main body having internal electrodes laminated therein; and external electrodes formed on both ends of the ceramic main body in a length direction thereof, wherein each of the external electrodes includes a first layer formed on the ceramic main body and including a conductive metal, and a second layer formed on the first layer and including a conductive resin, and when Tc is a thickness of a cover layer of the ceramic main body, L1 is a length from either end of the ceramic main body in the length direction thereof to an end of the first layer formed on an upper surface or a lower surface of the ceramic main body, T1 is a thickness of the first layer, and T2 is a thickness of the second layer, Tc?70 ?m, T2?(1.5)T1, and L1<(1.5)Tc are satisfied, thus providing excellent reliability.

Abstract: A packaged capacitor component such as a surface mount technology capacitor component may be formed with multiple self-resonant frequencies. The capacitor component may include multiple capacitor portions separated by dielectric layers. The capacitor portions may each be formed from interleaving conductive layers. Additional dielectric layers may be interposed between the interleaving conductive layers. Each capacitor portion may be characterized by a corresponding self-resonance frequency. If desired, a packaged capacitor component having multiple self-resonant frequencies may be formed by stacking multiple surface-mount capacitor components. Each of the stacked surface-mount capacitor components may include interleaving conductive layers that are centered between top and bottom surfaces of that component. Packaged capacitor components having multiple self-resonance frequencies may be used as direct-current blocking capacitors or decoupling capacitors.

Abstract: There is provided a multilayer ceramic electronic component, including: a ceramic body including a dielectric layer; a plurality of internal electrodes disposed to face each other within the ceramic body, having the dielectric layer interposed therebetween; and external electrodes electrically connected to the internal electrodes, wherein the ceramic body includes an active layer corresponding to a capacitance forming part and a cover layer formed on at least one of an upper surface and a lower surface of the active layer and corresponding to a non-capacitance forming part, an average thickness of the cover layer is 15 ?m or less, the external electrodes include a conductive metal and a glass, and when an area of the external electrodes occupied by the glass is A and an area thereof occupied by the conductive metal is B, 0.05?A/B?0.6 is satisfied.

Abstract: A laminated ceramic capacitor having high electrostatic capacitance and excellent lifetime characteristics, even when in a high electric field intensity employs a dielectric ceramic including crystal grains and crystal grain boundaries which contains, as its main constituent, a perovskite-type compound including Ba, Ca, and Ti, and further contains Mg, R (Y, La, Sm, Eu, Gd, Tb, Dy, Ho, Er, Tm, and/or Yb), and Zr, such that when the laminated body is dissolved, the contents in terms of parts by mol are Ca: 3 to 15 parts by mol, Mg: 0.01 to 0.09 parts by mol, R: 2.5 to 8.4 parts by mol, and Zr: 0.05 to 3.0 parts by mol with respect to 100 parts by mol of Ti, and there is Ca at least at the centers of the crystal grains.

Abstract: An electronic component includes an electronic component body and metal terminals. The electronic component body includes a base member and external electrodes. The base member includes two opposed end surfaces, two opposed side surfaces, and two opposed principal surfaces. The external electrodes are disposed on the end surfaces of the base member. The metal terminals are connected to the external electrodes by bonding with solder. A relationship of about 21?Vc/Vh?about 320 is satisfied where Vc is a volume of the electronic component body and Vh is a volume of the solder provided at one of the pairs of the external electrodes and the metal terminals.

Abstract: There is provided a chip type laminated capacitor, including: a ceramic body including a dielectric layer having a thickness equal to 10 or more times an average particle diameter of a grain included therein and being 3 ?m or less; first and second outer electrodes formed on both ends of the ceramic body in a length direction; first and second band parts formed to extend inwardly of the ceramic body in the length direction on a length-width (L-W) plane from the first and second outer electrodes and having different lengths; and third and fourth band parts formed to extend inwardly of the ceramic body in the length direction on a length-thickness (L-T) plane from the first and second outer electrodes and having different lengths.

Abstract: A ceramic electronic component includes a ceramic base, first and second internal electrodes, and first and second external electrodes. The first external electrode is disposed at a first end portion of a first major surface in the longitudinal direction. The second external electrode is disposed at a second end portion of the first major surface in the longitudinal direction. A portion of each of the first and second external electrodes is opposed in the thickness direction to a region where the first and second internal electrodes are opposed to each other in the thickness direction. A condition ( 1/10)t0?t1?(?)t0 is satisfied, where t0 is the thickness of each of the first and second external electrodes and t1 is the thickness of a portion in which each of the first and second external electrodes is embedded in the first major surface.

Abstract: Provided is a laminated ceramic capacitor that can suppress the decrease in insulation resistance after a moisture-resistance loading test. It contains ceramic layers which include: main-phase grains that have a perovskite-type compound containing Ba and Ti and optionally containing Ca, Sr, Zr, and Hf; and secondary-phase grains that have an average grain size of 100 nm or more and have a Si content of 50 mol % or more per grain, the average grain boundary number, represented by (Average Thickness for Ceramic Layers 3)/(Average Grain Size for Main Phase Grains)?1, is greater than 0 and 3.0 or less, and the average grain size for the secondary-phase grains is ¼ or more of the average thickness for the ceramic layers 3.

Abstract: According to one embodiment of a capacitor module, the capacitor module includes a substrate having a metallization on a first side of the substrate, a plurality of connectors electrically coupled to the metallization and a plurality of capacitors disposed on the metallization. The plurality of capacitors includes a first set of capacitors electrically connected in parallel between a first set of the connectors and a second set of the connectors. The capacitor module further includes a housing enclosing the plurality of capacitors within the capacitor module.

Abstract: A ceramic electronic component includes a ceramic sintered body and an electrode provided on a surface of the ceramic sintered body. The electrode contains Ag. The ceramic sintered body contain glass material made of borosilicate glass. The glass material has closed pores and open pores therein. The closed pores and the open pores have diameters decreasing as being located away from the surface of the ceramic sintered body. This ceramic electronic component can prevent delamination of the electrode from the ceramic sintered body during a process of firing a green sheet.

Abstract: A multilayer ceramic electronic component that is small, that has high electrical strength, and that is resistant to separation between ceramic layers includes a ceramic sintered body having a substantially rectangular parallelepiped shape and a plurality of first and second internal electrodes. The plurality of first and second internal electrodes are alternately arranged so as to face each other. The first and second internal electrodes are parallel or substantially parallel to first and second major surfaces. The first and second internal electrodes are exposed to at least one of the fifth and sixth surfaces and are not exposed to the third or fourth surface. No bends exist in any of the ends of each of the first and second internal electrodes adjacent to the third and fourth surfaces.

Abstract: An electronic component includes a ceramic sintered body, and a plurality of first and second inner electrodes alternately arranged inside the ceramic sintered body to be opposed to each other in a third direction with a ceramic layer interposed between the adjacent first and second inner electrodes. The first and second inner electrodes are each arranged to be exposed to a third or fourth surface without being exposed to fifth and sixth surfaces. Heterogeneous regions, which include solid solutions of metals included in the first and second inner electrodes and the ceramic sintered body, are arranged continuously in opposite end portions of the ceramic sintered body in a first direction to extend from one side end to an opposite side end of a region where the first and second inner electrodes are disposed in a third direction.

Abstract: There are provided a multilayer ceramic electronic component, and a method of fabricating the same. The multilayer ceramic electronic component includes: a ceramic main body including a dielectric layer; first and second internal electrodes disposed to face each other within the ceramic main body; and a first external electrode and a second external electrode, wherein the first and second external electrodes include a conductive metal and glass, and when at least one of the first and second external electrodes is divided into three equal parts in a thickness direction, an area of the glass in a central part thereof is 35% to 80% of the total area of the central part. A multilayer ceramic electronic component having improved reliability may be implemented by enhancing chip air-tightness.

Abstract: There are provided a ceramic sheet product for a ceramic electronic component, a multilayer ceramic electronic component using the same, and a method of manufacturing the multilayer ceramic electronic component. The ceramic sheet product for a ceramic electronic component includes a ceramic layer; a metal layer formed on the ceramic layer; and metal nanostructures contacting the metal layer and protruding from the metal layer to an inner portion of the ceramic layer. With the multilayer ceramic electronic component using the ceramic sheet product for a ceramic electronic component, an interval between electrodes is reduced to thereby allow for the increase of capacitance, whereby a multilayer ceramic electronic component having high capacitance may be provided.

Abstract: [Object] To provide a capacitor in which generation of warpage of a laminate can be prevented. [Solution] A capacitor 1 includes a laminate 2 in which a plurality of dielectric layers 6 are laminated, an inner electrode 3 disposed between the dielectric layers 6 of the laminate 2, an outer electrode 4 that is disposed on an end face of the laminate 2 so as to be connected to the inner electrode 3 and that has an extending portion 4A extending to a first main surface 2A of the laminate 2, and an underlying layer 5 including a base 5a disposed between the extending portion 4A and the first main surface 2A and metal particles 5b that are contained in the base 5a and that are joined to the outer electrode 4. With this structure, it is possible to provide a capacitor 1 in which warpage is not easily generated in the laminate 2 during sintering.

Abstract: There are provided a ceramic electronic component and a method of manufacturing the same. The ceramic electronic component includes: a ceramic element; and an internal electrode layer formed within the ceramic element, having a thickness of 0.5 ?m or less, and including a non-electrode region formed therein, wherein an area ratio of the non-electrode region to an electrode region of the internal electrode layer, in a cross section of the internal electrode layer is between 0.1% and 10%, and the non-electrode region includes a ceramic component.

Abstract: An electrical component includes a ceramic base body. The ceramic base body includes several ceramic layers including a function layer and a composite layer bordering the function layer. The composite layer can include a zirconium oxide-glass filler mixture.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a multilayer ceramic electronic component significantly reduces and prevents swelling or distortion when a conductive paste is applied to a green ceramic element body. A ceramic green sheet used in the method satisfies 180.56?A/B wherein A is a polymerization degree of an organic binder contained in the ceramic green sheet, and B is a volume content of a plasticizer contained in the ceramic green sheet.

Abstract: A ceramic electronic component includes a ceramic base body and first and second outer electrodes. The ceramic base body includes first and second primary surfaces, first and second side surfaces, and first and second end surfaces. The first and second outer electrodes are arranged on the ceramic base body so that front end portions of the outer electrodes face each other. The first and the second outer electrodes include outermost layers each containing Cu. Outermost layers of the facing front end portions of the first and the second outer electrodes are more oxidized than outermost layers of the other portions of the first and the second outer electrodes.

Abstract: A ceramic electronic component with metal terminals comprising a chip component formed with terminal electrodes at both ends, and a pair of metal terminals comprising a flat plate portion having a flat plate portion facing face provided so that it faces an end face of said chip component and connected to said terminal electrodes via a joining portion , and a mounting portion connected to one end portion of said flat plate portion and extending approximately perpendicular to said flat plate portion, wherein said mounting portion has a mounting portion bottom face forming an angle of approximately 270 degrees with respect to said flat plate portion, and a mounting portion upper face forming an angle of approximately 90 degrees with respect to said flat plate portion, and a solder adhering prevention area having lower wettability than said mounting portion bottom face is formed.

Abstract: A multilayered ceramic electronic component includes: a ceramic element having a plurality of dielectric layers laminated therein; first inner electrodes formed on the dielectric layers disposed in upper and lower portions in the ceramic element, the width of a portion of each of the first inner electrodes exposed from one end face of the ceramic element being less than that of a portion thereof disposed within the ceramic element; and second inner electrodes formed on the dielectric layers disposed in the middle portion in the ceramic element, the width of a portion of each of the second inner electrodes exposed from one end face of the ceramic element being equal to that of a portion thereof disposed within the ceramic element.

Abstract: Provided is a package type multi-layer thin film capacitor for large capacitance, including: a ceramic sintered body formed with slots on one side and another side thereof, respectively; a plurality of first internal electrode layers formed within the ceramic sintered body; a plurality of second internal electrode layers formed within the ceramic sintered body to be positioned between the plurality of first internal electrode layers; a pair of first main connection electrode members inserted into the slots to be connected to the first internal electrode layers or the second internal electrode layers, respectively; a pair of first main lead members inserted into the slots and to be connected to the first main connection electrode members, respectively; and a sealing member sealing the ceramic sintered body to partially expose each of the pair of first main lead members.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a mounting structure of a circuit board having a multi-layered ceramic capacitor thereon, the multi-layered ceramic capacitor including dielectric sheets laminated thereon and external terminal electrodes formed at both ends thereof, the dielectric sheets having internal electrodes formed thereon, and the external terminal electrodes being connected in parallel with the internal electrode, wherein the internal electrodes are disposed to be in parallel with the circuit board, the external terminal electrodes are bonded to lands of the circuit board by a conductive material, and a bonding height (Ts) of the conductive material is lower than a sum of a gap (Ta) between the circuit board and a bottom surface of the multi-layered ceramic capacitor and a thickness (Tc) of a cover layer on a lower portion of the multi-layered ceramic capacitor, whereby vibration noise can be greatly reduced.

Abstract: In a multilayer ceramic electronic component, when a region of a ceramic body in layers where neither of a first internal electrode and a second internal electrode is provided as viewed in a direction in which a plurality of ceramic layers are stacked on one another is defined as a non-effective layer region, a dummy lead-through conductor is arranged in the non-effective layer region so as to lead to at least two locations on portions of superficies of the ceramic body and be electrically connected to a second external electrode. When a conductive medium is brought into contact with one of a plurality of exposed edges of the dummy lead-through conductor, a current is also applied to the other exposed edges.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are a stacked chip device including: a stacked body in which a plurality of sheets having an internal electrode made of a conductive material are stacked; external electrodes provided at both sides of the stacked body; and connection electrodes extending from the internal electrode and electrically connecting the internal electrode with the external electrodes, wherein the connection electrodes include: a plating solution permeation preventing section extending from the internal electrode, however, extending with a thickness smaller than the thickness of the internal electrode; and a contact reinforcement section extending from the plating solution permeation preventing section, however, extending in the form in which the thickness thereof is gradually extended toward the external electrode, and a manufacturing method thereof.

Abstract: A capacitor includes a dielectric layer having a first plane, a second plane opposite to the first plane, and first and second through-holes communicated with the first plane and the second plane; a first external conductor layer disposed on the first plane; a second external conductor layer disposed on the second plane; a first internal electrode formed in the first through-hole, connected to the first external electrode layer, disposed in the second hole diameter part at a tip and separated from the second external electrode layer; and a second internal electrode formed in the second through-hole, connected to the second external electrode layer, and separated from the first external electrode layer.

Abstract: A first inner electrode is integrally provided with a first terminal connection part connected to a first terminal electrode and a first linking connection part connected to a first linking electrode. A second inner electrode is integrally provided with a second terminal connection part connected to a second terminal electrode and a second linking connection part connected to a second linking electrode. A third inner electrode is integrally provided with a third linking connection part connected to the first linking electrode. A fourth inner electrode is integrally provided with a fourth linking connection part connected to the second linking electrode. The third inner electrode is adjacent to the first and fourth inner electrodes in a laminating direction of the plurality of dielectric layers. The first and fourth inner electrodes overlap the third inner electrode as seen in the laminating direction of the plurality of dielectric layers.

Abstract: There is provided an electronic component including: a ceramic body; internal electrodes formed within the ceramic body; and external electrodes electrically connected to the internal electrodes, formed on external surfaces of the ceramic body, and including a metal powder having nano protrusions formed of an organic metal on a surface of a metal particle.

Abstract: In a monolithic ceramic electronic component, given that an interval between outer-layer dummy conductors adjacent to each other in an outer layer portion is d1, and that an interval between first and second inner electrodes adjacent to each other in an inner layer portion is d2, 1.7d2?d1 is satisfied. By reducing a density of the outer-layer dummy conductors in the outer layer portion on that condition, pressing of the inner electrodes through the outer-layer dummy conductors is relieved in a pressing step before firing. As a result, a distance between the inner electrodes can be prevented from being locally shortened. It is hence possible to effectively reduce and prevent degradation of reliability of the monolithic ceramic electronic component, e.g., a reduction of BDV.

Abstract: The invention provides a process for forming crack-free dielectric films on a substrate. The process comprise the application of a dielectric precursor layer of a thickness from about 0.3 ?m to about 1.0 ?m to a substrate. The deposition is followed by low temperature heat pretreatment, prepyrolysis, pyrolysis and crystallization step for each layer. The deposition, heat pretreatment, prepyrolysis, pyrolysis and crystallization are repeated until the dielectric film forms an overall thickness of from about 1.5 ?m to about 20.0 ?m and providing a final crystallization treatment to form a thick dielectric film. Also provided was a thick crack-free dielectric film on a substrate, the dielectric forming a dense thick crack-free dielectric having an overall dielectric thickness of from about 1.5 ?m to about 20.0 ?m.

Abstract: A thin film capacitor includes a substrate and a dielectric thin film element formed on the substrate. The substrate can include an Si plate, an SiO2 film on the Si plate, and a Ti film formed on the SiO2 film. The dielectric thin film element includes a lower electrode, a dielectric thin film on the lower electrode, and an upper electrode formed on the dielectric thin film. The dielectric thin film is a thin film formed of a nanosheet, and a void portion of the dielectric thin film is filled with a p-type conductive organic polymer. Ti0.87O2, Ca2Nb3O10 or the like, is used as a dielectric material to form a major component of the nanosheet. As the p-type conductive organic polymer, polypyrrole, polyaniline, polyethylene dioxythiophene or the like, is suitable.

Abstract: A multilayer ceramic capacitor, having a plurality of electrode layers and a plurality of substantially titanium dioxide dielectric layers, wherein each respective titanium dioxide dielectric layer is substantially free of porosity, wherein each respective substantially titanium dioxide dielectric layer is positioned between two respective electrode layers, wherein each respective substantially titanium dioxide dielectric layer has an average grain size of between about 200 and about 400 nanometers, wherein each respective substantially titanium dioxide dielectric layer has maximum particle size of less than about 500 nanometers. Typically, each respective substantially titanium dioxide dielectric layer further includes at least one dopant selected from the group including P, V, Nb, Ta, Mo, W, and combinations thereof, and the included dopant is typically present in amounts of less than about 0.01 atomic percent.

Abstract: A collective component has a first region that intersects with a conductive film for external terminal electrodes in a break line in which break leading holes are arranged and a second region that does not intersect with the conductive film for external terminal electrodes in the break line. The plurality of break leading holes includes at least one extending break leading hole located so as to extend over the first region and the second region.

Abstract: There is provided a multi-layered ceramic capacitor having a dual layer-electrode structure formed by applying a dual layer of electrode paste to the multi-layered ceramic capacitor. The multi-layered ceramic capacitor having a dual layer-electrode structure includes a capacitor body having a preset length and width and having a plurality dielectric layers stacked therein, an internal electrode unit formed on the plurality of dielectric layers and having a preset capacitance, and an external electrode unit including first external electrodes respectively formed on both sides of the capacitor body to be electrically connected to internal electrodes, and second external electrodes formed on the first external electrodes.

Abstract: There are provided a multilayer ceramic electronic component and a method of manufacturing the same, the multilayer ceramic electronic including: a ceramic body; and a plurality of internal electrodes laminated within the ceramic body, wherein, when T1 is the greatest distance between an upper outermost internal electrode and a lower outermost internal electrode among the plurality of internal electrodes and T2 is the distance between the highest point and the lowest point in each of the upper outermost internal electrode and the lower outermost internal electrode in a thickness direction of the ceramic body, T2/T1<0.05 is satisfied, and thus, defects in alignment of internal electrodes of the multilayer ceramic electronic component may be suppressed.

Abstract: An electronic component that is prevented from being inclined with respect to a circuit board during and after mounting includes a laminated body that is preferably configured by stacking a plurality of insulator layers, and includes a lower surface with depressions provided thereon. The lower surface includes a series of outer edges of the insulator layers. Capacitor electrodes are defined by internal conductors incorporated in the laminated body, which respectively have exposed sections that are exposed from between the insulator layers in the depressions on the lower surface. External electrodes, which are preferably formed directly by plating, are provided in the depressions to cover the exposed sections.