Excess component inventory has begun to flood the spot market. As business conditions in the electronics industry worsen, OEM and EMS companies sitting on an abundance of parts are offloading ...

Over the last 40 years, a series of misconceptions regarding mica capacitor applications has led novice users to consistently over-derate wound or rolled mica/epoxy dielectric capacitors. The mined ...

More and more portable devices now use ceramic capacitors for filtering of dc/dc-converter inputs. Ceramic capacitors offer the advantages of small size, low ESR (equivalent series resistance) and ...

For a quarter of a century, niobium was tested as a capacitor substrate, with disappointing results that led many to believe it never would provide equivalent performance to tantalum. However, in ...

Three packs of supercapacitors (in the blue package), consisting of six D-size cells each 18 cells total were able to provide and store the same amount of electrical energy as the smaller pack of six ...