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DC bias vs AC voltage change rate on MLCC capacitors
I'm looking at the following MLCC capacitor, which is a 10uF X5R ceramic: official datasheet
I know that ceramic capacitors which aren't C0G have an important variation of their value depending con ...
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Is there a shielding difference from switching terminals of an MLCC capacitor?
For electrolytic capacitors, the capacitor has only one working polarity (or it
usually will get damaged if reversed).
For film capacitors, the outermost metal layers ("left" and "right&...
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Same capacitance, same class, same voltage rating, different package characteristic
The same capacitance has the same class at the same voltage rating. However, the capacitor package are different. Will the characteristics be different?
I usually wouldn't pay any attention to this, ...
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low frequency ripple current RMS amps and temperature rise in MLCC
Manufacturers only specify this metric of 0.1, 0.5 and 1MHz.
Is there any way to calculate / estimate the temperature rise in these capacitors for much lower frequencies, in the Hz range, based on ...
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Ceramic capacitors soldering "placement/vertical" polarity
I was wondering, since multilayer ceramic caps have layers like this:
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Aren't they supposed to (for better performance) be soldered on the PCB as the above picture shows aka parallel to ...
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How can I tell whether an SMT/SMD Capacitor is oriented with plates horizontal or vertical?
This article talks about mounting capacitors with the electrodes parallel or perpendicular to this microstrip indicating that "By mounting the capacitor vertically, that is, with the electrodes ...
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Why use a tantalum instead of a ceramic capacitor?
On page 72 of the AD7124-4 datasheet it says:
Decouple AVDD with a 1 μF tantalum capacitor in parallel with a 0.1 μF capacitor to AVSS on each pin.
Why would this capacitor be specified to be a ...
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Capacitance decay of SMD ceramic capacitors
I want to use a 330nF X7R ceramic capacitor for an analog circuit.
Obviously the capacitance value is very important for the correct working of the circuit.
I haven't found on the datasheet if these ...
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MLCC - Can I use high voltage rated caps for very low voltage scenarios?
Is there any important reason why I can`t use high voltage mulilayer ceramic capacitors for low voltage scenarios? For example 50V or 100V rated MLCCs for 3.3V DC applications?
I have bad eyes, and ...
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SMD Ceramic capacitor MLCC 0805 vs 0603
I'm trying to choose the right size of smd mlcc ceramic capacitor.
Two of the biggest values of my capacitors are, 4.7uF and 10uF which I first chose to be 0603 because my pcb space is very limited.
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