by Stephen Oxley M.Eng C.Eng MIET, TT Electronics UK presented by S.Oxley at the 2nd PCNS 10-13th September 2019, Bucharest, Romania as paper 1.3. Abstract Film resistor technologies have come a long way since metalised glass and cracked...
by: R. Andersson, M. Bylund, S. Krause, A. M. Saleem and V. Desmaris Smoltek AB, Gothenburg, Sweden OUTSTANDING AWARD PAPER BY PCNS ATTENDEES presented by S.Krause at the 2nd PCNS 10-13th September 2019, Bucharest, Romania as paper 1.2....
By A. Yializis Ph.D., PolyCharge America Inc., Tucson, Arizona presented at the 2nd PCNS 10-13th September 2019, Bucharest, Romania as paper 1.1. The paper introduces development of NanoLamTM, solid state, polymer monolithic capacitors, comprising 1000s of nano-thick, cross-linked...
2nd PCNS Passive Components Networking Symposium held in Bucharest, Romania on September 10-13th, 2019 was a great opportunity to meet passive components professionals and discuss with them hot topics, technical challenges, market trends, material supplies etc. related to...
elektroniknet.de published an interview with Tomas Zednicek, EPCI president during the 4th Passive Components Users Forum in July 2019. During the 4th Passive Components Users Forum, held in Munich 2-3rd July 2019, Ralf Higgelke, Technical Editor with DESIGN...
C5. Variable Capacitors Variable capacitors are used for trimming and tuning purposes. They represent a small but important part of the capacitor assortment. C 5.1. GENERAL DESCRIPTION By means of an electrode system consisting of one fixed and...
C 4.4. The time constant, t The time constant of electrostatic capacitors is defined in section C1.2.2 as the time needed to discharge a loaded capacitor through the insulation resistance (IR) to 1/e (~37%) of the initial voltage....
C 4.0 SUPERCAPACITORS C 4.1. Introduction and Basic Function Supercapacitors (or ultracapacitors) are the fastest growing capacitor technology on the market offering very high DC capacitance and high energy densities. Sometimes all supercapacitors are mis-called as EDLC (Electric...
C 3.8 WET TANTALUM ELECTROLYTICS C 3.8.1. Introduction Wet tantalum capacitors have several advantages over solid tantalum, aluminum electrolytic, and ceramic capacitors. As with all other capacitors, these advantages lead to a very specific “sweet spot” or...
C 3.7. SOLID NIOBIUM and NIOBIUM OXIDE CAPACITORS Niobium is a sister metal to tantalum, and shares many chemical characteristics with it, in addition to a few disadvantages and advantages of its own when used as a capacitor...
