This article is based on ESA SPCD 2022 paper entitled “Miniature RF switch for compact redundancy ring” written by Olivier Berenfeld, RADIALL, France, and Olivier Vendier, Thales Alenia Space (TAS), France. The paper was presented during the 4th ESA SPCD conference at ESA ESTEC, The Netherlands 11-14th October 2022 and received BEST PAPER AWARD of the conference. Published under ESA SPCD organisation committee permission. Introduction Subject...

TDK Corporation presents its new B33331I6* series, compact EPCOS motor-run metallized polypropylene film capacitors that comply with safety class S2 as well as the IEC 60335-2-24 standard, that will come Read the original post TDK Releases the Most Compact Safety Motor-Run Film Capacitors on Passive Components Blog.

The blog article written by Robert Lu, KYOCERA-AVX Corporation explains impact of several factors such as temperature, applied DC/AC bias voltage, and age to capacitance stability of MLCC ceramic capacitors. The multi-layer Read the original post Temperature, Bias and Ageing Impact to Capacitance Stability of MLCC Ceramic Capacitors on Passive Components Blog.

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prof. Sam Ben-Yaakov provides an intuitive explanation of the multiphase Buck Trans-Inductor voltage regulator (TLVR). Relevant videos: Read the original post Multiphase Buck Trans-Inductor Voltage Regulator (TLVR) Explained on Passive Components Blog.