Abhijit Gurav

Dr. Abhijit Gurav is the Vice President of Ceramic Technology at KEMET Electronics Corporation, a YAGEO company, at Simpsonville, South Carolina.  He leads a dynamic R&D organization for the development of materials, processes, and new products of ceramic capacitors at KEMET.

Dr. Gurav holds a B.S. and M.S. in Metallurgical Engineering and Materials Science from the Indian Institute of Technology (I.I.T.), Mumbai, India, and a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the University of New Mexico (UNM), Albuquerque, New Mexico.  Prior to joining KEMET, Dr. Gurav was a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the NSF Center for Micro-Engineered Materials at UNM, Albuquerque, NM.  While at UNM, Dr. Gurav also collaborated for research in aerosol processing of materials and taught graduate level courses at VTT Chemical Technology (National Labs), Espoo, Finland.

Dr. Gurav’s current areas of expertise and research interests include electronic properties and behaviors of materials and components, design, processing, reliability testing and modeling of ceramic capacitors for high reliability, dielectric formulations, electrode and end-termination materials, ceramic tape (foil) development, lamination and sintering of multi-layer structures such as ceramic capacitors.  For over 20 years, Dr. Gurav has been a key contributor as well as a team leader for developing and launching various Class-II (X7R and X5R) and Class-I (C0G and U2J) type ceramic capacitor products at KEMET.  At KEMET, the R&D and product management teams have always worked on innovation and new product development closely aligned with strategic growth areas, solving customer’s problems and with a market focus.  One notable example is KEMET’s world-leading Class-I C0G ceramic capacitor product.  Two families of Class-I C0G ceramic capacitors were first launched in 2005 and 2007 and were extended with capabilities for high rated temperatures and voltages over the past 10 years.  Due to its superior capability for high capacitance, high breakdown strength, and robust reliability at high temperatures (200°C and beyond) and voltage from 10V to 3kV and higher, this C0G product gained rapid acceptance and adoption in a wide range of commercial, automotive, medical, Hi-Rel, down-hole and industrial applications, and has become a favorite choice for capacitors among many customers.  These C0G capacitor products have had a significant business impact for KEMET.  In the past 10 years, KEMET has sold more than $700M worth of C0G capacitors and the numbers keep growing.  In 2021 alone, KEMET enjoyed $100M in C0G revenue, and the revenue so far during 2022 has already increased by 36% compared to the same period in 2021.  That is a lot of capacitors!  One of the most exciting growth areas is the automotive and Hybrid/EV/Power/High-Voltage segment, which already represents more than 50% of our C0G capacitor product revenue and is growing faster than any other segment.

Dr. Gurav has authored 21 refereed publications, review articles and book chapters, and has given over 80 presentations/papers at international conferences.  He holds 14 U.S. and foreign patents with 20 more patents pending in the U.S. and abroad.  He is a member of the American Ceramic Society, and an Active Member/KEMET contributor on PSMA Capacitor Committee, Automotive Electronics Council (AEC), and G11/G12 Committees.  Past Memberships include IMAPS, ASM International, IMS/ EDFAS, MRS and AIChE.