Peak Nano has secured two US patents that position American manufacturers to advance high-performance capacitor film technology. The breakthrough addresses supply chain vulnerabilities while ...

A capacitor, along with resistors and inductors, belongs to a group of components known as passive devices. These components do not produce or amplify energy; instead, they can only store, absorb, or ...

Capacitors are essential components in electrical circuits, serving as energy storage devices that can help start motors, filter signals, and much more. Installing a capacitor may seem daunting, but ...

Choosing the right capacitor, especially the right tantalum capacitor, is crucial to ensure equipment reliability both at first turn-on and over time. Always consider derating to achieve the best ...

Abstract: Switched-capacitor (SC) circuits are ubiquitous in CMOS mixed-signal ICs. The most fundamental performance limitation in these circuits stems from the thermal noise introduced by MOSFET ...

It’s a widely known problem with roots in urban legend: Devices with motherboards failing in the early 2000s with a sudden pop, a gruesome spill, or sometimes a burst of flames. And it was allegedly ...

Somewhere between the period of 1999 and 2007 a plague swept through the world, devastating lives and businesses. Identified by a scourge of electrolytic capacitors violently exploding or splurging ...

Antonia Haynes is a Game Rant writer who resides in a small seaside town in England where she has lived her whole life. Beginning her video game writing career in 2014, and having an avid love of ...

Everyone knows that the perfect capacitor to decouple the power rails around ICs is a 100 nF ceramic capacitor or equivalent, yet where does this ‘fact’ come from and is it even correct? These are the ...

Robbie has been an avid gamer for well over 20 years. During that time, he's watched countless franchises rise and fall. He's a big RPG fan but dabbles in a little bit of everything. Writing about ...