Business Wire

01005 Inch Size Multilayer Ceramic Capacitor with a Capacitance Value of 1.0μF, Another World’s First from Murata

KYOTO, Japan--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd. (TOKYO: 6981) (ISIN: JP3914400001) has developed the world’s first *1 multilayer ceramic capacitor with a capacitance value of 1.0μF in ...
EDN

Capacitance measurement: Understand and use the right technique to dramatically improve results

A capacitor measured with a $100 handheld multi-meter can give a substantially different result than the same capacitor measured with a $10,000 LCR meter. That same capacitor measured with two ...
EDN

Characterizing the dynamic output capacitance of a MOSFET

According to precedence, MOSFET datasheets show output capacitance at a single measured voltage. While these values were good enough for relative comparison between products in the past, it is ...
Electronic Design

Diagnosing Class II MLCC Effective Capacitance and Aging Under DC Bias

For decades, multi-layer ceramic capacitors (MLCCs) have been the go-to choice for surface-mounted capacitors due to their many advantages, such as wide available capacitance range, non-polarity, low ...
Electronic Design

Selecting Output Capacitors In Power Applications

Switched-mode power supplies (SMPS) and low dropout (LDO) regulators are found in electronic systems. Critical SMPS requirements include a stable output voltage with load current, good temperature ...