A ceramic capacitor is a type of capacitor that utilizes ceramic as the dielectric material. The ceramic dielectric allows for high capacitance values within a compact size, making these capacitors ideal for space-limited applications. Ceramic capacitors come in various shapes and sizes, providing versatility for a range of applications.
Disc ceramic capacitors have a simple, disc-shaped design. They consist of a ceramic disc with electrodes on either side. These capacitors are commonly used in low-frequency applications and basic electronic circuits. A multilayer ceramic capacitor consists of multiple layers of ceramic material interleaved with metal electrodes.
In a single-layer design, a single ceramic layer serves as the dielectric between two plates, keeping the construction simple and cost-effective. These capacitors come in different forms including disc ceramic and plate ceramic capacitors. Disc ceramic capacitors have a simple, disc-shaped design.
C 2.9.1 Construction The capacitors consist, as the name tells us, of some kind of ceramic. The manufacturing process starts with a finely grounded ceramic powder mixed to an emulsion of solvents and resin binders.
The most common example of Class I ceramic capacitors are C0G (NP0) and U2J capacitors. Here are the key characteristics of Class I ceramic capacitors, particularly C0G: Figure 2: Temperature characteristics of a 0.1uF ceramic capacitor (C0G). C0G exhibits high temperature stability.
A ceramic capacitor chip Ceramic chips for surface mounting looks in principle like the one in Figure C2-74. MLCCs are by far the leading downsizing and miniaturization technology among passive components. Chart bellow is illustrating shift of the case size mix in MLCCs.