If you’ve done any amount of electronic design work, you’ll be familiar with the need for decoupling capacitors. Sometimes a chip’s datasheet will tell you exactly what kind of caps to place where, ...

With today’s advancements in wireless technology, greater emphasis is being placed on component performance. This article will provide a discussion of ceramic and porcelain chip capacitors and ...

Mechanical flexibility, the use of pure aluminum electrodes, immunity to aging and stable operating characteristics ensure the reliability of these capacitors in power applications. The electrical and ...

AVX Corporation has introduced a new series of ultra-miniature chip capacitors for the RF and microwave communications market. Featuring copper electrodes in place of standard precious metal ...

Cornell Dubilier is addressing higher voltage and higher capacitance applications with extensions to its XMPL polymer chip capacitor series, which all measure 7.3 x 4.3 x 1.9mm (EIA ‘7343’). “With low ...