As with the acquisition of the conductive polymer capacitor business from Showa Denko, known as SDK, Murata is able to expand its high capacitance offering into non-ceramic technologies. This strategy complements Murata’s existing MLCC line-up and provides the customer with an extensive range of capacitor solutions. Users may ask what the advantages are of using polymer capacitors vs MLCCs? That is simple, MLCCs offer the best overall solution in terms of size, volumetric capacitance, and low impedance. However, polymer Al capacitors extend the high capacitance offering up to 470µF, exhibit strong ESR performance compared to traditional electrolytic capacitors, and provide similar characteristics when compared to MLCCs.