ELK GROVE VILLAGE, Ill. – High-voltage multi-layer ceramic chip capacitors (MLCCs) can experience field failures that are instantaneous and catastrophic. The initiator of the failure very often is an ...

A snubber circuit limits voltage spikes in power converters. Snubbers are also used in the output of Class-D audio amplifiers for the same reasons (Fig. 1). When the transistor you use to switch the ...

TORONTO, ONTARIO--(Marketwired - Aug 12, 2015) - EEStor Corporation (TSX VENTURE:ESU) ("EEStor" or the "Company"), today announced the findings of the independent Phase 3 testing conducted by Intertek ...

Ceramic capacitors are passive electronic components constructed using a ceramic dielectric. Ceramic materials have been used as insulators since the beginning of the study of electronics. Early ...

Technical ceramics are utilized in a variety of products and also for coatings of components that have to be highly wear- or temperature-resistant. They are also used in non-conductive or ...

Many single-phase motors used on refrigeration systems will incorporate some type of capacitor. They will either use a start capacitor to aid in its starting or a run capacitor to improve its running ...

While working at a company that makes automotive embedded control systems, my colleagues and I set out to create a new PCB layout for one of our products. The product worked fine, but we needed to ...

In residential and light commercial HVACR, we work with run capacitors every day, and you may have noticed that they fail quite often. Because of this, many companies are beginning to integrate ...

Medium- and high-voltage capacitors find widespread use as snubbers or filters in applications, such as switching power supplies for audiovisual and business equipment (computers, modems and fax ...

The inverters and charging systems in hybrid or fully electric vehicles provide a topical example of a high-voltage application that faces extreme space constraints. When multilayer ceramic capacitors ...

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 ...