TDK CGA2B2X7R1H102M050BE 1000pF 50V X7R 0402 SMD Multilayer Ceramic Capacitors 210 PCS NOS

Genuine TDK CGA2B2X7R1H102M050BE multilayer ceramic surface-mount capacitors featuring a 1000pF (1nF or 0.001uF) capacitance value, 50V DC voltage rating, X7R dielectric, and 20% capacitance tolerance.

These miniature 0402 (1005 metric) ceramic chip capacitors belong to TDK's CGA automotive-grade multilayer ceramic capacitor family. This series incorporates soft termination technology designed to improve resistance to mechanical stress and reduce the risk of ceramic cracking caused by printed circuit board flexing.

The X7R dielectric provides stable temperature characteristics within its specified operating range, making these capacitors suitable for bypassing, decoupling, filtering, signal coupling, noise suppression, and general electronic circuit applications.

These components are useful for electronics repair technicians, industrial maintenance, automotive electronic assemblies, communications equipment, power management systems, test equipment, and compact printed circuit board restoration.

TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS:

- Capacitance: 1000pF
- Equivalent Capacitance: 1nF (0.001uF)
- Capacitance Tolerance: 20%
- Rated Voltage: 50V DC
- Dielectric: X7R
- Package: 0402 SMD (1005 metric)
- Dimensions: 1.0 x 0.5 mm
- Nominal Thickness: 0.5 mm
- Construction: Multilayer Ceramic
- Temperature Characteristic: ±15% from -55°C to +125°C
- Operating Temperature: -55°C to +125°C
- Automotive Qualification: AEC-Q200
- Termination Technology: Soft Termination
- Mounting Type: Surface Mount
- Series: TDK CGA
- Capacitance Code: 102
- Original Distributor: Mouser Electronics
- Distributor Date Code: 1910 (2019, Week 10)
- Country of Origin: Japan (JP, original Mouser label)
- Original Distributor Quantity: 500 PCS
- Packaging: Distributor-Labeled Component Stock

LIFECYCLE: ACTIVE

\- HISTORICAL BACKGROUND: TDK Corporation was founded in Japan in 1935 as Tokyo Denki Kagaku Kogyo K.K. The company was established to commercialize ferrite technology, a magnetic ceramic material developed through Japanese scientific research. Ferrite technology became important in radio equipment, transformers, inductors, magnetic recording systems, and electronic communications.

  During the following decades, TDK expanded into magnetic components, electronic materials, capacitors, inductors, recording media, sensors, and other electronic technologies. The company became an internationally recognized manufacturer of passive electronic components used in consumer, industrial, automotive, and communications equipment.

  Ceramic capacitors became increasingly important as electronic circuits transitioned from vacuum tubes and discrete wiring to transistorized equipment and printed circuit boards. Their compact dimensions, relatively low losses, and suitability for high-volume manufacturing made them useful for filtering, coupling, bypassing, and circuit stabilization.

  The development of multilayer ceramic capacitors represented an important advancement in passive component technology. Rather than using a single ceramic dielectric layer, multilayer capacitors incorporate numerous alternating ceramic dielectric and internal electrode layers connected through external terminations.

  This construction allows manufacturers to provide useful capacitance values in extremely small packages while maintaining compatibility with automated electronic assembly.

  As electronic devices became smaller during the late twentieth century, multilayer ceramic capacitors increasingly replaced larger leaded components in consumer electronics, computers, communications equipment, industrial controllers, and automotive systems.

  TDK developed extensive multilayer ceramic capacitor families to support these applications, including general-purpose, high-voltage, temperature-stable, and automotive-grade components.

  The CGA series was developed for automotive and other demanding electronic applications requiring compact multilayer ceramic capacitors with controlled electrical and mechanical characteristics.

  One important challenge with miniature ceramic capacitors is their susceptibility to mechanical cracking when printed circuit boards bend during assembly, installation, or operation. Ceramic materials are relatively brittle, and excessive board flexure can produce fractures that may affect capacitor reliability.

  TDK's soft termination technology addresses this problem by incorporating a mechanically compliant termination structure intended to help absorb stress between the ceramic capacitor body and the printed circuit board.

  The CGA2B2X7R1H102M050BE represents a miniature 0402 automotive-grade multilayer ceramic capacitor featuring a 1000pF capacitance value, 50V rating, X7R dielectric, and 20% tolerance.

  The X7R temperature characteristic specifies capacitance variation within ±15% across the operating temperature range of -55°C to +125°C. Actual capacitance can also vary with applied DC voltage and other operating conditions.

  Components of this type are used in automotive control modules, industrial electronics, communications hardware, power supply circuits, sensor interfaces, and other densely populated electronic assemblies.

  TDK's continued development of multilayer ceramic capacitor technology illustrates the electronics industry's movement toward higher component density, improved mechanical reliability, and increasingly compact circuit board construction.

PACKAGING & QUANTITY:

Original Mouser Electronics distributor-labeled packet of genuine TDK CGA-series multilayer ceramic capacitors.

The original distributor quantity was 500 components. The current RF Boneyard packet contains 210 PCS.

Sold as one complete 210-piece packet, not individually. Each packet represents one sellable inventory unit.

The original distributor label identifies TDK as the manufacturer, the CGA capacitor family, capacitance, voltage rating, package size, manufacturing date code, and country of origin.