My friend's computer has been acting flakey, especially when he's got a lot of bus-powered USB devices plugged in. I've narrowed the problem down to either the motherboard or power supply. The power ...

Common Types of Capacitors and Trade-offs As described in the previous sections, the materials and structure of a capacitor will dictate its attributes, like parasitics, temperature stability, maximum ...

Over the last 40 years, a series of misconceptions regarding mica capacitor applications has led novice users to consistently over-derate wound or rolled mica/epoxy dielectric capacitors. The mined ...

All buck converters need capacitors on the input. Actually, in a perfect world, if the supply had zero output impedance and infinite current capacity and the tracks had zero resistance or inductance, ...

With their low equivalent series resistance (ESR), which allows for good ripple-current handling as well as high surge-voltage ratings and self-healing properties, film capacitors are strong ...