AVX (Greenville, SC) has announced that its TAZ HRC5000 Medical Grade Tantalum Capacitor Series has won Medical Design Briefs’ 2013 Readers’ Choice Product of the Year Award.  Selected from amongst the 12 products recognized as a Medical Design Briefs Product of the Month throughout the year, the Readers’ Choice Product of the Year Award honors the most significant new product introduced to the medical engineering community in 2013, as determined by raw reader votes. Designed for use in implantable medical devices, AVX’s high-reliability TAZ HRC5000 Medical Grade Tantalum Capacitor Series features:

• A rating of 4 to 50 V and -55º to +125ºC.
• A capacitance range of 0.1to 330 µF.
• Low DC leakage limits (as low as 0.1µA). 

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