Electronic Design

Ease Capacitor ESL/ESR Measurement With Mercury-Wetted Relay

Capacitor discharge circuits are used extensively in fast pulse generation. In such applications, the capacitor's stray inductance (or equivalent series inductance ...
Hackaday

Clever Test Rig Clarifies Capacitor Rules-of-Thumb

If you’ve done any amount of electronic design work, you’ll be familiar with the need for decoupling capacitors. Sometimes a chip’s datasheet will tell you exactly what kind of caps to place where, ...
Electronic Design

Capacitor Series Features low ESR

The CoreCap NPV Series from AVX offers low ESR, high ripple current absorption, safety and high reliability. The CoreCap NPV Series from AVX is a new series of Niobium Oxide (NbO) – Ceramic Multianode ...
EDN

Microwave capacitor delivers very low ESR

AVX has introduced the SQCF microwave capacitor that is claimed to deliver the lowest Equivalent Series Resistance (ESR) in a 0805 case size on the market. SQCF microwave capacitors present an ESR ...