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Engineers designing power electronics find that capacitors are needed for several functions, from energy storage to filters and decoupling. Different...

Source: EPCI original article By Tomas Zednicek Ph.D. European Passive Components Institute. This article summarizes history, main features and potentials...

by DOE/Argonne National Laboratory, original written by Jared Sagoff. Researchers have created a permanent static 'negative capacitor,' a device believed...

Source: Original EPCI article by: Tomas Zednicek, EPCI MLCC capacitors are dominating today's capacitor market enabling high grade of electronics...

Source: Electronic Products article By Reggie Philips, senior product manager, KEMET. Innovative arc-over prevention enables compact, high-voltage surface-mount MLCCs to...

Source: Electronic Products news By Robert Chao, president and founder, Advanced Linear Devices, Inc. MOSFETs lower the operating bias voltage...

Switched-mode power supplies (SMPS) have the advantage of high efficiency compared to traditional low-dropout (LDO) regulators. Due to its switching...

Paul Martin from Omnexus, a SpecialChem company put together a comprehensive article on Dissipation Factor of Plastic Materials which includes...

A practical capacitor is a non-ideal component. Its circuit model contains series inductance (ESL) and series resistance (ESR). Although equivalent...