Every now and then you need to make your own capacitor. That includes choosing a dielectric for it, the insulating material that goes between the plates. One dielectric material that I use a lot is ...

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 ...

In the latest version of its Q3D Extractor, Ansoft gives designers a window into the capacitance and conductance issues prevalent in lossy dielectrics. Version 8 of the parasitic extraction tool ...

The introduction of several new dielectric materials for high-speed ultra-large-scale integration (ULSI) microelectronics has increased the necessity for metrology tools to measure the ...

Dielectric thermal analysis (DETA) is a materials science technique in which an oscillating electric field is used to analyze changes in the physical properties of a number of polar materials. This ...

Some very big changes are afoot in an industry that manufactures some of the smallest pieces of hardware known to man. The way semiconductors are made is changing, and chip manufacturers from Taiwan ...

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 ...

Manufacturers of electronic devices ideally want an electrostatic-free environment for components. Certain plastics can prevent electrostatic discharge (ESD). ESD is the transfer of charge between ...