Vintage equipment relies on many components to run properly, Chuck Gloman writes. Let’s focus today on what capacitors do in ...

http://www.bccomponents.comTo deliver on time and on budget, telecom designers need to make component selection decisions quickly. However, careful consideration must ...

There is a general trend of making electronics smaller and with more functionality. This translates into: “Cram it in there,” so naturally designers look to find smaller and smaller parts. What was on ...

Samsung Electro-Mechanics disclosed on May 20, 2026, that it had signed a contract worth 1.557 trillion won to supply silicon ...

If you have ever tried to run a high-performance computer in a hot room, or pushed an electric vehicle to its limit on a scorching summer highway, you know the enemy of modern electronics is heat. As ...

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 ...

Everyone knows that the perfect capacitor to decouple the power rails around ICs is a 100 nF ceramic capacitor or equivalent, yet where does this ‘fact’ come from and is it even correct? These are the ...

One of the most common parts to fail on a single-phase HVAC system is a run capacitor, so much so that we sometimes refer to junior techs as “capacitor changers.” While capacitors may be easy to ...

In electrical and electronic engineering, capacitors are fundamental components. They appear across all manner of applications, including power supplies, analogue filters, timing circuits, and energy ...

When engineers at Corscience set out to make what they call the world’s smallest automated external defibrillator (AED), they knew that miniaturizing the capacitor that delivers the life-saving shock ...