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Full paper download High voltage Aluminium electrolytic capacitors with working voltages UR > 400 V are the backbone of industrial and automotive electronics. The main application is in the DC-link circuit. The advantage of those capacitors are lower cost...

Full paper pdf download This paper will present a novel technology (CNF-MIM) combining Carbon Nanofiber (CNF) materials and MIM (metal-insulator-metal)-like technology, enabling capacitors with total thickness lower than 40 µm suitable for use in future miniaturized electronics. The paper...

Full paper pdf download The high-κ dielectric materials are commonly used in microelectronic components due to technological necessity of increasing the permittivity of dielectric layers. The thickness of the layer is crucial parameter of this technology because it has...

Tantalum, MLCC, and super capacitor technologies are ideal for many energy storage applications because of their high capacitance capability. These capacitors have drastically different electrical and environmental responses that are sometimes not explicit on datasheets or requires additional knowledge...

Full paper pdf download GaN based RF devices offer significant advantages in a wide spectrum of applications ranging from commercial to high reliability / flight use equipment. This paper looks at the ability of Tantalum Polymer capacitors to be...

Full paper pdf download The sense of touch is a critical element into an immersive user experience. Haptics is, essentially, the science of touch. According to IDTechEx, the haptics market will be worth nearly $5bn by 2025. How can...

Full paper pdf download Downsizing and footprint reduction are constant requirements of the market for all applications or equipment and the relative components. Film capacitors are not an exception and time by time is required to reduce the components...

Full paper pdf download Some of the “standard” parameters provided by the producers are not relevant in case of class II MLCCs. For these devices the designer must perform additional calculations and tests to select and to validate a...

An update on what has been going on at Continental Automotive since we got to know this Phenomenon. Full paper pdf download The trend in our technology is always towards higher power density and miniaturization. We know that this...