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 an electronic device enhance the user experience through interacting with the sense of touch? Haptic technologies have been present in gaming and cell phone for...

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 dimension maintaining the same rated voltage and performances. Decreasing the volume of the components, one of the consequences is a reduction of the power dissipation...

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 class II MLCC for an application with given requirements. Variation of the main parameter (capacitance) due to usage conditions is so large that it behaves...

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 brings not only advantages like space and cost savings but can also entail disadvantages – sometimes even unexpected behavior. We at Continental have been faced...

Full paper pdf download Surface mount technology feedthrough ceramic capacitors are gaining popularity in Hi-Rel systems due to small size and great filtering characteristics.  In this work, BME feedthrough capacitors compliant with AEC-Q200 requirements have been evaluated, screened and qualified for a space project.  Evaluation included analysis of the effect of post-soldering thermal shocks, temperature dependencies of leakage currents, distribution of breakdown voltages, assessments...