Murata has announced a new generation silicon capacitor process which builds devices less than 40µm thick and up to 1.3µF/mm 2. Made using semiconductor lithography techniques, the capacitors are ...

A next-generation memory structure has been realized that stably stores data without a key component that becomes harder to make as semiconductors shrink. The Electronics and Telecommunications ...

Guest columnist Naoyuki Kobayashi, senior product manager at Murata says that one problem frequently encountered when designing LED lighting circuits is that the capacitors in the circuit experience ...

In operation, the source is electrically connected to ground, the drain is connected to the bit line, which has a constant positive voltage applied to it, and the gate is connected to the word line.

Capacitors are passive electronic components that store electrical energy. Basic capacitors, formerly known as condensers, consist of two parallel plates - one positive and one negative - separated by ...

Bypass capacitors are found in every working piece of electronic equipment. Most engineers know that systems, circuits, and individual chips need to be bypassed. The methods for choosing bypass ...

Researchers have designed a new switched-capacitor-based multilevel inverter topology with nine switches. They have tested it in simulations and in hardware-in-the-loop tests. Efficiency reached up to ...

Various forms of heat pumps—refrigerators, air conditioners, heaters—are estimated to consume about 30 percent of the world’s electricity. And that number is almost certain to rise, as heat pumps play ...

Chip capacitors are passive integrated circuit (IC) components that store electrical energy. Chip capacitors are simply capacitors manufactured as integrated circuit (IC) devices, also known as chips ...

Common Types of Capacitors and Trade-offs As described in the previous sections, the materials and structure of a capacitor will dictate its attributes, like parasitics, temperature stability, maximum ...