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 compared to other capacitor types, a high CV product and a ...
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 was presented by Maria Bylund, Smoltek AB, Gothenburg, Sweden at the ...
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 significant influence on the dielectric properties, capacitance density, leakage current density-voltage ...
Electronic component miniaturization and operation in harsh environmental conditions are growing trends in applications, such as on-board chargers, energy meters, capacitive power supplies, including connection in series with the mains, motor drives, wind and solar inverters. Current EMI (Electromagnetic Interference) X2 class suppression and DC-link power box film capacitors need ...
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 of the properties of materials used, to select the best solution ...
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 used on the voltage supply lines of GaN based Power Amplifiers. ...
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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 ...
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 ...
