Niagara Falls / New York / United States
Vishay Thin Film, located in Malvern, Pa., is one of the leaders in thin film technology. It provides a wide range of products, including surface-mount networks and chips, through-hole resistors, hybrid resistors, and resistor and capacitor networks. Vishay Thin Film technology uses photolithographic precision patterning to give designers a wide range of resistance values in the smallest possible area. Its technologies include tamelox, tantalum nitride, nichrome, and passivated nichrome. Vishay Thin Film is a division of Vishay, which is one of the largest manufacturers of discrete semiconductors and passive components in the world. The company s clients include electronic devices and equipment, in the industrial, computer, automotive, consumer, telecommunications, military, aerospace, and medical markets. Vishay was founded in 1962 to manufacture and market foil resistors.