Electronic Design

AC Safety Capacitors for X and Y Class Applications

Tecate Group announced its offering of AC Safety Capacitors for X and Y class applications. Tecate's X/Y safety capacitor portfolio consists of the TYPE CMX multi-layer ceramic chip (MLLC) capacitors ...
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Capacitors–the old decoupling standbys

As we have seen in part I and part II of this series [1], there are no inherent wear-out mechanisms in ceramic capacitors. And yes, as covered in part II, the high dielectric Class 2 capacitors (X7R) ...
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Parasitics and Capacitor Selection, Part VIII: Voltage Coefficient for Class II Ceramic Capacitors

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 ...
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 ...