Copper Volatility Impacts MLCC Supply Chain 

Copper is a metal that is consumed primarily in the electrical industry for multi-conductor cable, but which also is used in powder and paste form in the electronic component industry in a very limited but important capacity – as the termination material for the hundreds of billions of multilayered ceramic chip capacitors produced worldwide each year.

Its unique metallic structure of copper makes it an excellent conductor and lends itself to uses in conjunction with base metal electrodes to form the conductive links between capacitance and circuit functions of the printed circuit board.

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