General decoupling applications require capacitors with a combination of high capacitance and low reactance (i.e., low equivalent series resistance [ESR] and equivalent series inductance [ESL]) in the ...

Dielectrics are of two types: (i) Non-Polar Dielectrics: When the centre of positive charge coincides with the centre of negative charge in a molecule, e.g., Nitrogen, Oxygen, CO 2 etc. (ii) Polar ...

In the latest version of its Q3D Extractor, Ansoft gives designers a window into the capacitance and conductance issues prevalent in lossy dielectrics. Version 8 of the parasitic extraction tool ...

What capacitance do you get when you buy a multilayer ceramic capacitor? It might sound like an odd question but the actual answer is down to dielectric type, design and operational conditions which ...

Thin films and high-k dielectrics continue to be at the forefront of electronic device engineering, offering transformative solutions for enhanced performance and scaling in modern semiconductor ...

Last month's column explained that AC current flowing through an inductance reaches its peak amplitude after the voltage. Lagging current is characteristic of an inductive circuit. Capacitive circuits ...

Taiwan-based Prosperity Dielectrics Company (PDC), which supplies powder materials to multi-layer ceramic-chip capacitor (MLCC) makers, has developed new products for high-capacitance MLCCs and ...