Myrtle Beach, S.C. – AVX Corp. has expanded its passive components offerings with the addition of a 0306-size low-inductance multilayer ceramic chip capacitor (MLCC), which can be used for ...

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 ...

High school physics teaches us that an electromagnetic field is generated when charge passes through a conductor. In many circuit designs this basic fact is set aside as an inconvenience, so that ...

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 ...

If you’ve been building circuits for any length of time, you probably know you need decoupling capacitors to keep your circuits stable. But even though it’s a favorite technique of ours, just ...

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 ...

Power system designers are constantly under pressure to attain larger power densities and improved conversion efficiencies, whether it is for data servers for the internet of things or data centers.

According to the IEEE Standard Dictionary of Electrical and Electronic Terms, power factor (PF) is defined as the ratio of the circuit power (watts) to the circuit volt-amperes. This is described by ...