Electronic Design

Diagnosing Class II MLCC Effective Capacitance and Aging Under DC Bias

For decades, multi-layer ceramic capacitors (MLCCs) have been the go-to choice for surface-mounted capacitors due to their many advantages, such as wide available capacitance range, non-polarity, low ...
Nanowerk

Multilayer stack opens door to low-power electronics

(Nanowerk News) Researchers found that a stack of ultrathin materials, characterized in part at the Advanced Light Source (ALS), exhibits a phenomenon called negative capacitance, which reduces the ...
EDN

Audio coupling with niobium oxide capacitors

There are several technical features required of capacitors used in professional audio and music applications. High-fidelity and noiseless audio-filtering features are necessary without any compromise ...
Electronic Design

Fundamentals of Semiconductor C-V Measurements

Capacitance-voltage (C-V) testing is widely used to determine semiconductor parameters, particularly in MOSCAP and MOSFET structures. However, other types of semiconductor devices and technologies ...
Nature

Negative Capacitance Field-Effect Transistors and Ferroelectric Materials

Negative capacitance field-effect transistors (NCFETs) represent a transformative approach in the design of low-power electronic devices. By integrating ferroelectric materials into the gate structure ...
EDN

Power Tips #120: How isolated bias transformer parasitic capacitance impacts EMI performance

Small, isolated power supplies provide power across isolation barriers in applications from electric vehicle traction inverters to factory control modules. In this Power Tip, I’ll examine different ...