Search
Languages

Bourns Announces its Smallest Package AEC-Q200 Compliant, Automotive Grade Thick Film Resistors

The CR01005A-AS Series is sulfur-resistant, offering outstanding space-saving and reliability advantages for high-density, compact designs and certain harsh environments

RIVERSIDE, Calif., July 14, 2025 - Bourns, Inc., a leading manufacturer and supplier of electronic components for power, protection, and sensing solutions, today announced its AEC-Q200 compliant, automotive grade CR01005A-AS Series Thick Film Resistors. An extension to the Company’s popular CR-A-AS Series, these new resistors feature an extremely small package size (0.4 mm x 0.2 mm x 0.13 mm) and have a sulfur-resistant design (ASTM B-809). The series’ enhanced resistance to corrosion-related failures significantly helps to improve system stability, reliability, performance and robustness, while also minimizing potential downtime.

The features and ultra-compact package offered in the CR01005A-AS Series enables customers to further miniaturize their electronic designs without compromising performance or reliability. It also allows for greater component density on PCBs, freeing up board space for additional functionality or to reduce overall device size. Other features include a resistance range from 1 Ω to 1 MΩ, a resistance tolerance from 1 to 5 percent and a minimum TCR of ±200 ppm/°C. The feature benefits designed into the CR01005A-AS Series make it ideal for applications requiring miniaturization, high reliability, and the ability to operate in certain harsh environments such as in various transportation industry applications, wearable devices, smartwatches, fitness trackers and smartphones.

The Bourns® CR01005A-AS Series is available now and is RoHS* compliant and halogen free**. For more detailed product information, please see: bourns.com/products/resistors/thick-film-chip-resistors.

*RoHS Directive 2015/863, Mar 31, 2015 and Annex.

**Bourns considers a product to be "halogen free" if (a) the Bromine (Br) content is 900 ppm or less; (b) the Chlorine (Cl) content is 900 ppm or less; and (c) the total Bromine (Br) and Chlorine (Cl) content is 1500 ppm or less.

About Bourns

Bourns, Inc., is a leading manufacturer and supplier of position and speed sensors, circuit protection solutions, magnetic components, microelectronic modules, panel controls and resistive products. Headquartered in Riverside, California, USA, Bourns serves a broad range of markets, including automotive, industrial, consumer, communications, non-critical life support medical (low/medium risk), audio and various other market segments. Additional company and product information is available at www.bourns.com.

Bourns® and the Bourns logo are registered trademarks of Bourns, Inc. and may be used only with the permission of Bourns and proper acknowledgement. Other listed names and brands are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners.

Bourns® products have not been designed for and are not intended for use in "lifesaving," "life-critical" or "life-sustaining" applications nor any other applications where failure or malfunction of the Bourns® product may result in personal injury or death. See Legal Disclaimer Notice www.bourns.com/docs/legal/disclaimer.pdf

Agency Contact:
Annette Keller
Keller Communication
annettekeller1984@gmail.com
Company Contact:
David Scofield
Bourns, Inc.
(951) 781-5054
david.scofield@bourns.com