Myrtle Beach, S.C. — AVX Corp. has developed a land-grid array (LGA) capacitor using a fine copper termination process to produce advanced decoupling capacitors that offer extremely low equivalent ...

New passive component architectures can meet the challenging requirements of emerging applications such as advanced driver assistance systems, says Verena Salan, High school physics teaches us that an ...

When designers think of passive components, they think of manufacturing tolerances for inductors and capacitors that are typically ± 20% or ± 10%. That's okay in theory, but not when these components ...

Touted as an industry first, a new high-voltage capacitor can be ordered with wide, low-inductance, strap-style leads. The CH series capacitor is rated at voltages up to 60 kV and capacitance up to ...

Low inductance in the signal path is an obvious requirement in high frequency circuit design. The key for high frequency circuit design is not to simply reduce track lengths but also to reduce ...

Engineers usually have access to signal and function generators, as well as frequency counters and oscilloscopes, but they may not have access to capacitance or inductance meters. Using the test setup ...

Last month's column explained that AC current flowing through an inductance reaches its peak amplitude after the voltage. Lagging current is characteristic of an inductive circuit. Capacitive circuits ...

If you build electronic circuits on a regular basis the chances are you will have used capacitors many times. They are a standard component along with the resistor whose values are lifted off the ...