When choosing a capacitor for any application, there are a few key characteristics that must be understood in order to analyze its suitability for the circuit. In a simple capacitor equivalent circuit ...

Among the abundance of components making up electronic circuits, very few are as important as capacitors. These components, taking the form of conductive plates separated by an insulating material ...

There are many applications which require pulse power. The needed burst of energy is derived by rapidly discharging a previously charged capacitor. As the energy stored in a capacitor is equal to ...

Capacitors are small components with a big job—storing and releasing energy in electronic circuits. This video explains how capacitors smooth voltage, filter signals, and support stable power flow in ...

Here's how to reduce the effect of capacitor switching on your power system Last month's article discussed exactly what happens when electric utilities switch shunt capacitors: power system components ...

Workbench contributor and engineer Duke Evans writes that he has repaired many a circuit board trace with bare wire. In his years of circuit board repairs, Duke has also noted that some older ...

AVX Corporation has developed what is said to be the industry's first 63V and 75V single-anode tantalum polymer capacitors. Part of the TCJ Series polymer tantalum capacitors, these new surface mount ...

TAIYO YUDEN CO., LTD. has commercialized the new "HVX (-J)" and "HTX (-J)" series of conductive polymer hybrid aluminum electrolytic capacitors (hereinafter referred to as "hybrid capacitors") by ...